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When the Omicron response stage is reached, the local hospital has to handle everything from examination to treatment, and even remotely manages the patient.
The idea is to divide and respond to situations where the number of patients explodes.
Reporter Yoon-soo Park covered how local hospitals that will be in charge of at-home patients are preparing.
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Department of Family Medicine, Guro-gu, Seoul.
One corona home treatment patient was assigned and started non-face-to-face treatment by phone from today.
“Did you take the general cold medicine that was in the kit? Did you still have a sore throat after taking it?”
From today, 41 clinics in 5 districts in Seoul, including Guro-gu and Jungnang-gu, have started a pilot home treatment project for 10 home-patients.
Call the patient two or three times a day to check their condition and make sure they are transported to the hospital in case of an emergency.
Detailed management and response to home patients are possible.
This treatment method is expected to be expanded to other districts in Seoul next month, but the participation of lawmakers is still low.
First of all, it is because they have to stay at the hospital 24 hours a day, and it is burdensome for clinics with only one or two doctors to wait in the hospital until late every night.
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“It’s obligatory to stay in the hospital and make phone calls (to patients), but now I’m still recommending those guidelines. I hope it changes.”
For this reason, the city of Seoul has made 7 to 10 clinicians on duty every day from 10:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m. during the late-night hours, or to manage patients at the home treatment support center operated by the Seoul Medical Association.
In addition, there are many places where it is not easy to secure space inside the clinic, such as separating the place to stay from the general patient when treating corona patients face-to-face.
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“It is very important for primary medical institutions to actively participate and to expand the infrastructure so that even if such a large number of patients occur, there will be no major problems in home management.”
A situation where the ‘pandemic from Omicron’ is approaching.
The quarantine policy that the government has prepared for the past month has been put to the test.
This is Park Yoon-soo from MBC News.
Video coverage: Seo Hyun-kwon · Lee Jun-ha / Video editing: Lee Sang-min
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