Muan-gun, All-Out Effort to Expand Infrastructure for Medical Service Improvement

New Construction of Health Center with 4 Above-Ground Floors and 2 Basement Levels, Medical Equipment Enhancement

Perspective view of the new Muan-gun Public Health Center (Photo by Muan-gun)

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Oh Hwan-joo] Muan County, Jeollanam-do (Governor Kim San) announced on the 22nd that it is making efforts to expand infrastructure to improve medical services, including the construction of a new public health center and the introduction of various equipment.

The county was selected for the 2020-2021 Rural Medical Service Improvement Project competition and is preparing to relocate and rebuild the public health center with a project budget of 25 billion KRW, including national and provincial funds.

The new public health center will be built on the site of the old traditional market in Muan-eup, with four floors above ground and two basement levels, and is scheduled to be completed in the first half of 2022.

Although the parking lot was originally planned to be on one basement level, due to concerns about insufficient parking space, an additional 9.1 billion KRW of county funds will be invested to create a two-basement-level parking lot with 160 spaces.

A Dementia Relief Center, Mental Health Welfare Center, Rehabilitation Room, Physical Therapy Room, and Fitness Room will also be installed so that residents can receive various health and medical services in one place.

Additionally, to strengthen the functions of the eup/myeon health branches, eight health branches will be transformed into health promotion-type health branches by next year.

The health promotion-type health branches are medical facilities equipped with health promotion rooms that allow for the regular operation of various programs such as yoga, dance, and singing classes, and are enhanced with health education equipment and self-health management devices such as body fat analyzers.

In particular, visiting public health nurses who previously worked at the county public health center will be stationed at the health branches, establishing a system capable of quick response even in emergency situations.

At a time when the function of health branches is shifting from treatment to health lifestyle practice, the role of health promotion-type health branches as health living centers centered on small living areas can be said to be limitless.

A county official stated, “We will do our best to secure state-of-the-art health medical equipment by applying for the 2022 Rural Medical Service Improvement Project competition. Once the new public health center is completed and equipment is expanded, it is expected to greatly contribute to the health promotion of county residents.”

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