'Gwangju Rehabilitation Center' Opens to Provide Specialized Services for Local National Veterans

Completion Ceremony for the Region's First Project Held at 11 AM on the 14th

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Yoon Jamin] A rehabilitation center providing professional rehabilitation services to national veterans residing in provincial areas will be established for the first time in the provinces.

According to the Gwangju Regional Veterans Office on the 13th, the 'Gwangju Veterans Hospital Rehabilitation Center Completion Ceremony,' dedicated to the rehabilitation of national veterans and their families in the Gwangju and Honam regions, will be held at the rehabilitation center completion site in Gwangsan-gu, Gwangju Metropolitan City at 11 a.m. on the 14th.

Until now, professional rehabilitation has been supported through the Central Veterans Hospital Rehabilitation Center in the metropolitan area, but since there was no rehabilitation center in provincial veterans hospitals, it was difficult to provide professional rehabilitation to physically challenged national veterans residing in provincial areas.

To address this issue, the Veterans Affairs promoted plans to build rehabilitation centers at four veterans hospitals in Gwangju, Busan, Daejeon, and Daegu, and the Gwangju Veterans Hospital Rehabilitation Center was completed and opened for the first time in the provinces.

The event will be held in compliance with COVID-19 quarantine guidelines, with about 30 attendees including Hwang Gi-cheol, Director of the Veterans Affairs, Gam Shin, Chairman of the Korea Veterans Welfare and Medical Corporation, Kim Yongjip, Chairman of the Gwangju Metropolitan City Council, and Kim Samho, Mayor of Gwangsan-gu, Gwangju Metropolitan City.

The Gwangju Veterans Hospital Rehabilitation Center began design in 2018, started construction in December 2019, and was completed after two years of construction.

The rehabilitation center has 114 beds with one basement floor and seven above-ground floors (total floor area 8,380㎡). After the completion ceremony on the 14th, it will undergo pilot operation and then start full-scale treatment from 2022 with a workforce of about 80 professionals including medical staff and employees.

In particular, to provide professional rehabilitation support to national veterans and their families, various advanced technologies such as the domestically developed 'walking assist robot' will be introduced and utilized in the rehabilitation center, with a demonstration scheduled on the day of the completion ceremony.

Following the opening of this rehabilitation center, the opening of the Gwangju Nursing Hospital in the first half of next year will establish a system that provides customized integrated medical services connecting treatment, rehabilitation, and nursing care for veterans' families in the Gwangju and Honam regions.

Hwang Gi-cheol, Director of the Veterans Affairs, stated, “With the opening of the Gwangju Rehabilitation Center, we can provide more professional and systematic rehabilitation services to national veterans in the Honam region. We will continue efforts and attention to complete rehabilitation centers in other regions so that veterans' families can recover a healthier daily life as much as possible.”

Meanwhile, following the completion of the Gwangju Veterans Hospital Rehabilitation Center, the Veterans Affairs plans to improve the quality of veterans medical services through the completion of rehabilitation centers at Busan and Daejeon next year, and at Daegu Veterans Hospital in 2023.

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