Where Will the Police Hospital Branch Be... Gyeongnam Province's 6 Cities and Counties in All-Out Battle to Attract It

Resolution of the Provincial Assembly's Proposal to the Government

Gyeongnam Provincial Government. / Photo by Se-ryeong Lee ryeong@

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Seryeong] Six cities and counties in Gyeongnam Province have emerged as candidates for the establishment of branch hospitals by the National Police Agency.

According to Gyeongnam Province on the 19th, Changwon-si, Sacheon-si, Miryang-si, Hadong-gun, Haman-gun, and Hamyang-gun have applied as candidate sites.

The National Police Agency has decided to establish branch hospitals to support public medical services for police officers outside the metropolitan area.

The branch hospital is planned to be built on a site of 30,000㎡ with 23 medical departments and 550 beds.

The National Police Agency plans to select three candidate sites through a first evaluation in October and begin site inspections and a second evaluation starting in November.

According to Gyeongnam Province, in addition to the six cities and counties in the province competing to attract the branch hospital, 13 cities and counties from Daegu, Gangwon, Chungbuk, Chungnam, and Jeonnam regions are also competing.

The province argued that since a national fire hospital with about 300 beds is being promoted in Eumseong-gun, Chungbuk, in the central region, the police hospital branch must be secured in Gyeongnam.

A provincial official explained, “One of the purposes of this project is the balanced supply of national public medical services,” adding, “Among the 18 cities and counties in Gyeongnam, 13 are experiencing population decline or are designated as areas of interest, and among the candidate cities and counties for the police hospital branch, five are government-designated medically vulnerable areas.”

He also said, “The region has excellent transportation accessibility including railroads, roads, and air routes, and has high value as an anti-aging industry infrastructure and a resort area in Gyeongnam.”

The province has listed the expansion of public medical services as a key task of the 8th local government administration and plans to provide active support and cooperation from the construction stage to the operation of the police hospital branch.

The Gyeongnam Provincial Council also resolved a government appeal for attracting the police hospital branch at the Planning and Administration Committee on the 18th and decided to unite efforts to attract the branch hospital to the province.

A National Police Agency official said, “We have confirmed Gyeongnam’s willingness to attract the project,” and added, “We will ensure that Gyeongnam’s position and suggestions are conveyed to the site selection committee.”

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