Oh Byung-kwon Acting Director Visits 'Sudogwon Joint Response Situation Room' to Encourage Staff

Photo by Oh Byung-kwon, Acting Governor of Gyeonggi Province

[Asia Economy (Suwon) = Reporter Lee Young-gyu] Oh Byeong-kwon, Acting Governor of Gyeonggi Province, visited the 'Metropolitan Joint Response Situation Room' on the 28th, which manages the allocation of hospital beds for COVID-19 patients in the metropolitan area, to encourage the staff.

Visiting the Metropolitan Joint Response Situation Room at the National Medical Center in Seoul, Acting Governor Oh said, "I appreciate the efforts of all of you who are working hard to secure every hospital bed for COVID-19 patients," and emphasized, "It is now an urgent task to establish a sustainable medical system along with the efficiency of medical resources."

He added, "Gyeonggi Province, which has completed the formation of home treatment promotion teams in all 31 cities and counties, will continue to strengthen home treatment management capabilities."

The Metropolitan Joint Response Situation Room is the core of the metropolitan medical resource joint utilization system established to prevent medical gaps caused by administrative district boundaries and to efficiently use limited resources when COVID-19 patients occur.

About 240 people, including more than 30 dispatched from Gyeonggi Province, government officials, and medical staff, are performing patient classification, bed allocation, and transfer support.

Earlier, on the 21st, Acting Governor Oh inspected the COVID-19 response situation by visiting the Pyeongtaek Life Treatment Center, and on the 23rd, the Gyeonggi Provincial Medical Center Icheon Hospital, which is a home treatment management medical institution and has an outpatient clinic center installed.

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