Ministry of Health and Welfare Holds Public Hearing on Establishing the '2nd Comprehensive Plan for Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease Management'

On the morning of the 5th, the Ministry of Health and Welfare held a public hearing on the '2nd Comprehensive Plan for Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease Management' at the Koreana Hotel in Jung-gu, Seoul.

The comprehensive plan for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease management discussed at this public hearing is the second comprehensive plan since the enactment of the 'Act on the Prevention and Management of Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Diseases' in 2017. It includes 15 tasks across 5 areas, aiming to secure rapid pathways for severe and emergency cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, optimize linkage based on medical resources, and establish a patient-centered pre-existing disease management system.

Compared to the first comprehensive plan, the second plan is characterized by focusing on acute phase treatment response as part of implementing essential medical support measures. It plans to focus on tasks such as enhancing patients' ability to recognize emergency symptoms, providing information to prepare for medical use in advance to build a patient-centered medical utilization system, improving the specialized treatment capabilities of regional cardiovascular and cerebrovascular centers, and newly introducing a human network for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases to complement regional centers, thereby securing a problem-solving treatment response system for severe and emergency cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

The public hearing proceeds with a presentation by Lee Young, head of the Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease Policy 2.0 Planning Group, on the importance of managing cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, followed by a presentation from the Ministry of Health and Welfare on vision and implementation directions, and then panel discussions and comprehensive discussions involving experts from related academic societies.

Park Hyang, Director of Public Health Policy at the Ministry of Health and Welfare, stated in the opening remarks, "We will establish the 2nd Comprehensive Plan for Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease Management after sufficient collection and supplementation of opinions on key tasks responding to the entire cycle of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, such as optimal utilization of personnel to secure the golden time for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, improving treatment accessibility, and enhancing convenience in the utilization system."

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