Suwon City Revamps Home Treatment Promotion Team... Cho Cheong-sik Appointed as Head

[Asia Economy (Suwon) = Reporter Lee Young-gyu] Suwon City in Gyeonggi Province will reorganize and operate the 'Home Treatment Promotion Team' to manage and support COVID-19 patients undergoing home treatment starting on the 10th.

Suwon City announced that the Home Treatment Promotion Team has been reorganized into three teams: the General Administration Team, the Home Treatment Administrative Guidance Center, and the Home Treatment Medical Consultation Center. The team leader will be Deputy Mayor Cho Cheong-sik.

The General Administration Team is responsible for planning, inspecting, and overseeing home treatment, expanding medical institution infrastructure, and managing the registration of high-risk groups.

The Home Treatment Administrative Guidance Center responds to inquiries from home treatment patients and guides general management groups to hospitals offering non-face-to-face treatment. For the high-risk groups, it explains overall matters related to home treatment such as isolation release dates and how to install the Living Treatment App.

The Home Treatment Medical Consultation Center provides basic medical consultations upon request from home treatment patients and guides them on non-face-to-face treatment and medical consultation methods. For high-risk groups, it connects them to medical institutions and provides information on pharmaceutical support. It also manages medical institutions responsible for home treatment patient management.

The government began operating a new home treatment system focusing on high-risk groups starting on the same day. With the home treatment system reorganized around the 'high-risk groups,' general home treatment patients who are not in the high-risk group must call hospitals or clinics themselves to receive non-face-to-face treatment if symptoms develop.

Yeom Tae-young, Mayor of Suwon, emphasized, "We will maintain vigilance and enhance collaboration levels so that rapid and efficient responses can be made at frontline sites such as public health centers and medical institutions. We will do our best to minimize confusion and inconvenience for citizens and ensure that not a single confirmed patient is left in a blind spot."

Suwon City provides 'Omicron Response System Transition Diagnostic Test Guidance' through its website. The guidance mainly includes ▲ local hospitals and clinics where home treatment patients can receive prescriptions after phone consultations ▲ screening clinics and hospitals where COVID-19 diagnostic tests can be taken ▲ and information on the Omicron response system transition.

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