Jinju City Supports Social Welfare Facilities with Over 5,000 Self-Diagnostic Kits

Distributed to Welfare Facility Workers and Users to Prevent the Spread of the Omicron Variant

Self-diagnostic kits provided to social welfare facilities.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Soon-kyung] Jinju City, Gyeongnam Province, has provided over 5,000 self-diagnostic kits to local social welfare facilities frequently used by vulnerable groups, including welfare centers, self-support centers, funeral facilities, and multicultural centers.

This allows citizens who have suspected infection symptoms but are unable to get tested due to the closure of COVID-19 screening clinic hours or difficulty visiting the clinics to quickly conduct tests.

By supporting self-diagnostic kits, access to PCR diagnostic tests is made easier, preventing group infections within facilities and reducing the financial burden of purchasing kits for marginalized users of these facilities.

Jinju City is identifying blind spots in welfare facilities that are excluded from the Ministry of Health and Welfare's support targets, such as daycare centers, elderly facilities, pregnant women, facilities for the disabled, homeless shelters, basic livelihood security recipients, lower-income groups, and severely disabled individuals.

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