Naju City Implements 'Seol Holiday Comprehensive Measures'... Operates Comprehensive Situation Room

Published 26 Jan.2022 15:45(KST)

[Naju=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yukbong] Jeollanam-do Naju City is implementing a comprehensive plan for the Lunar New Year holiday.

The city announced on the 26th that it will operate a comprehensive situation room at the city hall and 20 eup, myeon, and dong administrative welfare centers for five days from the 29th of this month to the 2nd of next month.

It plans to focus administrative efforts on implementing sector-specific measures including COVID-19 prevention measures in accordance with the government's and Jeollanam-do's extended social distancing measures for phased daily recovery, as well as traffic, medical systems, environment, and safety.

The comprehensive situation room will be operated with 11 teams covering traffic, price stabilization, fuel supply, road repair, household waste collection, disaster and safety accident response, COVID-19 prevention and health care, handling of civil complaints, and livestock infectious disease measures.

The city will establish an emergency medical system to prepare for emergency patients during the holiday period and minimize medical service gaps.

The emergency rooms of Naju General Hospital and Bitgaram General Hospital, which are emergency medical institutions, will operate normally, and local hospitals, clinics, and holiday duty pharmacies will be open.

Since operating hours vary by hospital and pharmacy, visitors can check the health center website or contact the emergency medical situation room before visiting.

The health center will deploy emergency personnel to operate two screening clinics (Health Center and Bitgaram-dong) for COVID-19 PCR testing from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

At the Naju General Hospital screening clinic, 24-hour PCR testing is available.

The city will operate the city hall and 20 eup, myeon, and dong integrated civil service desks from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. for certificate issuance and civil complaint guidance.

At the integrated civil service desks, residents can obtain resident registration certificates, family relation certificates, and 112 types of civil documents can be issued at unmanned civil document issuance machines.

To minimize citizen inconvenience caused by waste disposal issues, emergency household waste collection and cleaning task forces will also be operated.

Household waste will be collected on the 31st of this month and the 2nd and 3rd of next month, and food waste will be collected on the 31st of this month and the 3rd of next month.

The city is also making every effort to ensure the convenience of returning visitors' transportation and to respond promptly to various incidents and accidents occurring on the roads.

Emergency duty teams for day and night road maintenance will be organized, and a disaster and accident response system will be established in cooperation with the Road Management Office and the National Land Management Office in response to weather warnings.

Additionally, the city will implement dispersal measures for traffic congestion at major intersections with heavy vehicle flow in cooperation with the police station, operate a traffic inconvenience reporting center, enforce traffic law violations, alleviate traffic congestion, and provide public transportation information.

In accordance with the extended social distancing guidelines until the 6th of next month, the city has launched a ‘Pause for a Moment’ campaign during the holiday period, encouraging non-face-to-face greetings and online ancestral rites.

When visiting hometowns, the city requests completion of vaccination and diagnostic testing, and that holiday events such as ancestral rites be conducted on a small scale.

A city official said, “We will do our best to implement sector-specific measures so that local residents and hometown visitors can have a healthy and safe holiday during the Lunar New Year,” and added, “We ask for active cooperation in adhering to quarantine rules, such as getting vaccinated before visiting hometowns and canceling or postponing visits if there are any abnormal symptoms.”