Daedong Hospital Opens Short-Term and Outpatient COVID-19 Home Treatment Center... Establishing Busan's First Private Medical Total Service

From Examination to Outpatient and Inpatient Care

Daedong Hospital.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yong-woo] Daedong Hospital opened a COVID-19 Home Treatment Short-Term and Outpatient Clinic Center on the 2nd.

Daedong Hospital was designated by Busan City in mid-February as a COVID-19 Home Treatment Short-Term and Outpatient Clinic Center, and for three weeks, it expanded its facilities and staff and introduced testing equipment.

Busan City opened the third COVID-19 Home Treatment Short-Term and Outpatient Clinic Center following the Busan Medical Center and Gapul Noksan Hospital, which were already in operation.

Daedong Hospital, designated as a Public Relief Hospital at the early stage of the COVID-19 outbreak, opened a respiratory specialty clinic designated by the Ministry of Health and Welfare in early 2020 and has been providing specialized care for local respiratory disease patients to date.

It also operates a separate screening clinic and was designated as an infectious disease specialized hospital by the Ministry of Health and Welfare at the end of last year, establishing a negative pressure ward.

Since last month, it has been participating in monitoring high-risk home treatment patients and providing non-face-to-face medical care as a medical institution managing the intensive home treatment group in Dongnae-gu.

With the operation of the COVID-19 Home Treatment Short-Term and Outpatient Clinic Center, Daedong Hospital has become the first private medical institution in the Busan area to establish a comprehensive medical service system related to COVID-19, from diagnosis to home management, face-to-face outpatient care, and hospitalization.

At the Short-Term and Outpatient Clinic Center, home treatment patients (including those waiting for beds) who are judged by the home treatment managing medical institution to require face-to-face consultation and testing will receive face-to-face care at the center.

To use the center, patients must make a prior reservation by contacting the home treatment management team at the health center of their respective district or county.

Park Kyung-hwan, Chair of the Infection Control Committee, said, “In a situation where daily confirmed cases are expected to exceed 300,000, it is very meaningful that Daedong Hospital can contribute publicly to protecting the health rights of COVID-19 patients.”

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