Yeom Dongpo-gu Mayor Cha Hyeon-il Communicates with Residents at Livelihood Sites on the First Day of the 2nd Anniversary of the 7th Elected Term

Starting the day with early morning cleaning... Visiting vital community workplaces like the fruit and vegetable market and Seonyudo Station to engage with hardworking residents... Encouraging frontline COVID-19 screening centers such as Seongae Hospital and Gangnam Seongsim Hospital

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Jong-il] On July 1, the first day of the second anniversary of the launch of the 7th local government, Cha Hyun-il, Mayor of Yeongdeungpo District, started his day by visiting the field of public livelihood early in the morning and communicating with residents, expressing his determination to achieve Yeongdeungpo's second leap forward together with the citizens.

At 6:20 a.m. that day, Mayor Cha Hyun-il took a broom and headed to the Yeongdeungpo Fruit and Vegetable Market area (Yeongsin-ro 39-gil 14), where the air was damp due to the rain that fell the previous day. About 20 people, including district office executives, staff, merchants, and residents, participated in the cleaning site.

Mayor Cha and his party walked through every corner of the approximately 450-meter-long fruit and vegetable market alley, diligently sweeping up the trash scattered throughout the streets. This was intended to recall the initial spirit of basic administration and on-foot administration, which were the main focus areas in the first half of the 7th local government, showing passion and determination to create a pleasant and livable area that residents can feel directly.

The 160 merchants in the fruit and vegetable market area were busy preparing to open their shops early in the morning. During the cleaning, Mayor Cha warmly greeted and shook hands with each merchant he passed by without exception.

After the cleaning, Mayor Cha held a meeting with the merchants at the customer rest area inside the fruit and vegetable market. He listened attentively to the merchants' livelihood-related issues and difficulties caused by COVID-19, shared his reflections on the two years of the 7th local government, and conveyed his determination to govern the district together with the residents in the future.

Next, Mayor Cha visited Seonyudo Station on Line 9. In the early days of COVID-19, a large number of confirmed cases occurred near Seonyudo Station, but through close cooperation between the district office and Seoul Metro Line 9, active disinfection and quarantine work prevented the spread of community infection.

Mayor Cha inspected the quarantine status at Seonyudo Station to ensure the safety of passengers crowded during commuting hours, personally carried out disinfection work, and demonstrated leadership in strengthening the community's COVID-19 quarantine network.

He also met with the Seonyudo Station operations manager and staff to encourage their hard work in quarantine activities and urged them to continue their full efforts to prevent the spread of COVID-19 on public transportation and to carry out quarantine work.

The next site visit was to Seongae Hospital and Gangnam Seongsim Hospital, local medical institutions operating screening clinics. As COVID-19 has prolonged and confirmed cases continue to occur, Mayor Cha visited the front lines of quarantine to observe the screening clinic sites where medical staff are working hard.

Currently, about 1,400 medical personnel are working at Seongae Hospital and Gangnam Seongsim Hospital. Since January 28 of this year, they have treated a total of about 16,000 patients, among whom approximately 9,700 underwent COVID-19 testing.

Mayor Cha communicated with the hospital directors and staff to listen to current issues and visited the screening clinics to encourage the medical staff who wear thick protective suits day and night during the summer to provide treatment and relief.

Earlier, the district supported medical institutions operating screening clinics, including Seongae Hospital and Gangnam Seongsim Hospital, with quarantine supplies worth about 50 million won, such as mobile negative pressure devices, Mongolian tents, non-contact thermometers, and negative pressure bio-bags, to respond to COVID-19.

Separately, the district has been supporting Seongae Hospital and Gangnam Seongsim Hospital with 4,000 N95 masks, 2,200 sets of Level D protective suits, and 480 bottles of hand sanitizer to minimize the risk of COVID-19 infection among medical staff.

Mayor Cha Hyun-il of Yeongdeungpo District said, “On the occasion of the 2nd anniversary of the 7th local government, I visited the public livelihood sites and the busy COVID-19 frontline to engage in on-foot administration communicating with residents. Building on the achievements of the past two years, I will overcome COVID-19 through communication and cooperation with 380,000 residents and open Yeongdeungpo's second renaissance.”

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