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As the number of children’s clinics, both in teaching hospitals and community hospitals, is drastically declining, concerns about the therapeutic table are gradually becoming a reality.
As patients pour into the open children’s clinic, the waiting time is around an hour, and the pediatric specialist at a university hospital gives more than half in two months.
This was reported by journalist Lim Seong-jae.
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A children’s clinic in Mapo-gu, Seoul.
Within an hour of starting treatment, the waiting area is filled with children and guardians.
It takes about 30 minutes to an hour to receive medical care.
From the patient’s point of view, it can only be perceived more slowly.
[윤준영 / 서울 이촌동 : (대기를) 한 30분, 40분 정도 한 것 같아요. 근방에 몇 개가 없어서요. 몰리게 되는 것 같습니다.]
As more than 660 local children’s hospitals have closed in the past five years, patients are pouring into the remaining hospitals.
[김은선 / 소아청소년과 전문의 : 수가가 안 되기 때문에 그렇게만 봐서는 소아청소년과를 경영할 수가 없습니다. 주변 병원들이 많이 폐업하게 되고, 더더욱 아픈 환자들만 집중해서 볼 수밖에 없고….]
The future is more uncertain.
The number of applications for pediatric majors has plummeted, so only 33 of the 207 quotas have applied for this year’s intake.
As the number of residents caring for emergency patients mainly at night on weekdays and on weekends and holidays has drastically decreased, teaching hospitals have been hit hard.
Metropolitan area hospitals also do not receive inpatients or drastically reduce hours of care.
In front of the emergency room of Gangnam Severance Hospital, a notice was posted stating that pediatric emergency patients cannot be treated after 10pm.
Doctors are reluctant because there are almost no unpayable items due to the low birth rate.
A bigger problem is that there is not even a discussion body that can solve these problems.
[임현택 / 대한소아청소년과학회 회장 : (몇 년 전부터) 대책이 필요하다고 목소리를 내왔지만 뚜렷한 대책을 정부가 내놓지 않았고, 보건복지부, 질병청, 기재부, 지방정부와 국회 그리고 소아과 전문의들이 협의체를 만들어….]
Two months later, 188 fourth-year pediatricians leave the teaching hospital after completing training, but only 33 are recruited, raising concerns of a “medical crisis”.
As it is emphasized that the infrastructure of pediatric care has already started to fall like dominoes, countermeasures are urgently needed.
I’m Im Seong-jae from YTN.
I’m Seong-jae from YTN ([email protected])
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