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government has come up with a countermeasure to save essential medical care that has collapsed.

Most of the support measures are to raise the fee and compensate for the loss of the hospital, but the effectiveness is questionable.



Reporter Yoo Seung-hyun reports.



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government's countermeasures are focused on severe emergencies such as cardiovascular disease and severe trauma.



The current 40 Regional Emergency Medical Centers will be transformed into up to 60 Severe Emergency Medical Centers, enabling 24-hour surgeries.



However, since it is impossible to suddenly increase the number of surgeons, it is expected that it will be operated as a 'rotational duty system' for the time being.



It is to prevent 119 ambulances from wandering around by setting a hospital on duty for each day of the week so that emergency surgery can be performed at least at one hospital in the region at any time.



Pediatric emergency care is also strengthened.



The Ministry of Health and Welfare decided to add 4 more pediatric emergency medical centers from the current 8, increase the cost of nighttime and holiday treatment, and compensate for damages to severe children's hospitals.



In order to strengthen childbirth hospitals, we decided to raise fees by 100% for each high-risk, childbirth vulnerable area, and pandemic.



[Cho Kyu-hong/Minister of Health and Welfare: To ensure that medical institutions performing high-risk childbirth can stably treat mothers…

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However, it is unclear whether the increase in numbers will turn back patients who go to big cities in search of large and safe obstetrics and gynecology clinics.



[Koo Jae-seok/Director of Taebaek Public Childbirth Hospital: (Pregnant women using Taebaek Childbirth Hospital) average about one person per month.

It would be nice if (number) increased.

It's for a group of medical doctors.

What does it have to do with raising the number from the patient's point of view?] The Ministry of Health and



Welfare announced that this time it was only the first announcement and that it would collect public opinion later.



(Video coverage: Jeon Gyeong-bae · Park Young-il, video editing: Kim Jin-won, CG: Jegal-chan · Lim Chan-hyuk, VJ: Shin So-young)