Yangsan Busan National University Hospital Selected as Yeongnam Region Infectious Disease Specialized Hospital ... Overcame 7 to 1 Competition

Establishing Specialized Hospitals by 2024 with a Total Project Cost of 76.7 Billion Won

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kang Woo-kwon] Gyeongsangnam-do announced on the 19th that 'Yangsan Pusan National University Hospital' has been finally selected as the Yeongnam regional infectious disease specialized hospital.

With the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic, the nationwide need for infectious disease specialized hospitals has increased, making the 'attraction of infectious disease specialized hospitals' an important task.

Accordingly, for the Yeongnam regional infectious disease specialized hospital, Daegu City had four applicants: Chilgok Kyungpook National University Hospital, Yeungnam University Hospital, Keimyung University Hospital, and Daegu Catholic University Hospital; Busan City had one applicant: Samyook Busan Hospital. Gyeongsangnam-do applied with two hospitals: Changwon Gyeongsang National University Hospital and Yangsan Pusan National University Hospital. Among these seven hospitals, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency finally selected 'Yangsan Pusan National University Hospital.'

Yangsan Pusan National University Hospital plans to build a specialized hospital by 2024 by investing 40.7 billion KRW in national funds and an additional 36 billion KRW from the hospital's own budget to create a connecting passage between the main building and the basement first floor, clearly separating the routes of medical staff, infected patients, and non-infected individuals.

An 'infectious disease specialized hospital' is a facility designed to respond to disaster-level infectious disease crises. It is built to prepare for outbreaks of high-risk new infectious diseases with high fatality rates and high transmission power, enabling the isolation of a large number of severe patients and treatment of underlying diseases simultaneously.

A Gyeongsangnam-do official stated, "For new infectious diseases, infrastructure that allows treatment within the region to block transmission through patient isolation is of utmost importance," and added, "We will do our best to ensure the smooth progress of the infectious disease specialized hospital construction according to the business plan."

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