Daegu Medical Center Expands Emergency Room Beds from 10 to 20... "Detailed Segmentation of COVID-19 Movement Paths"

Emergency Room Expansion Construction Completed... Full Operation Starting January Next Year

Daegu Medical Center exterior view.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Jae-ho] Daegu Medical Center announced on the 22nd that it has completed the emergency room expansion construction and will begin full-scale operation starting January next year.

A total of 5.5 billion KRW was invested in the Daegu Medical Center emergency room expansion project, which was promoted to alleviate regional emergency room overcrowding and strengthen infectious disease response. The total floor area is 1,353.78㎡, consisting of one basement floor and two above-ground floors.

With this expansion, the number of emergency room beds at Daegu Medical Center, a regional emergency medical institution, increased from 10 to 20.

The first floor (619.44㎡) is equipped with separate spaces such as a patient triage area for emergency and infectious disease response, negative pressure isolation room, infectious isolation room, emergency treatment room, cardiopulmonary resuscitation room, and emergency imaging room. The second floor (734.34㎡) consists of facilities for emergency delivery and an obstetrics and gynecology outpatient clinic.

In particular, to ensure efficient emergency room operation and infection prevention at Daegu Medical Center, which is a dedicated COVID-19 hospital, the movement paths of emergency patients (severe, mild, infectious) were subdivided. One negative pressure isolation room and one infectious isolation room were installed to enable faster and safer responses to infectious diseases.

Additionally, by early next year, 24 types of medical equipment, including CT and C-arm X-ray machines, will be replaced or newly procured (project cost 2.6 billion KRW).

Kim Jae-dong, Director of the Daegu City Citizen Health Bureau, emphasized, "Although this is a difficult time due to COVID-19 in many ways, we will spare no support to make Daegu Medical Center a trusted institution for citizens by improving facilities and equipment along with reinforcing professional medical personnel."

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