Chungbuk Urgently Recruits Medical Personnel for COVID-19 Response

[Asia Economy (Cheongju) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] Chungbuk Province announced on the 28th that it is urgently recruiting medical personnel to overcome the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19).

The number of recruits is a total of 260 medical personnel, including 20 doctors and 100 nurses.

The province plans to deploy the recruited medical personnel to infectious disease dedicated hospitals and screening clinics to handle tasks such as treatment and nursing of COVID-19 patients and specimen collection.

Applications can be made through the respective associations of each license, and after hiring, compensation such as basic allowance, hazard pay, and professional allowances will be provided.

Meanwhile, Chungbuk has recently been experiencing difficulties such as paralysis of medical institutions and accumulated fatigue of medical personnel due to sporadic group infections occurring in local nursing hospitals and psychiatric medical institutions.

A provincial official appealed, “Currently, in Chungbuk, the fatigue of medical institution workers has accumulated to a level where it is difficult to handle the increasing treatment and nursing of confirmed cases,” and “We earnestly ask for the help of medical personnel who will dedicate themselves to overcoming COVID-19.”

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