Daekyohyeop to Support Local Governments and School Health Personnel

Support Collaboration for Managing Home Treatment Patients and Guiding New and Released Cases

[Asia Economy Reporter Han Jinju] As COVID-19 cases surge due to the Omicron variant, exacerbating the shortage of healthcare workers, universities are stepping up to support healthcare personnel.

On the 1st, the Korea Council for University Education announced that universities and local governments will collaborate to support nursing and healthcare students and graduates as healthcare personnel.

If necessary, universities and local governments will sign agreements to actively cooperate so that students can assist with tasks such as managing patients undergoing home treatment, health monitoring, daily status statistics management, and guiding new patients and those released from quarantine.

With shortages of health teachers causing staffing difficulties in education offices and kindergartens, elementary and secondary schools, the Council plans to have nursing and healthcare students and graduates actively participate in preventing infectious diseases in schools.

A representative from the Council stated, "Overcoming COVID-19 is a task that requires the combined efforts of the public and private sectors, as well as administrative and educational institutions," adding, "Universities will strive together not only to overcome COVID-19 through thorough quarantine management in educational settings but also to help the local community overcome COVID-19."

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