Disease Control and Prevention Agency Shares Infectious Disease Management System with Mongolian Health Care Workers

On the 26th, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) announced that it shared South Korea's infectious disease management system with the director of the Mongolian National Public Health Center and three infectious disease medical staff from the Mongolian Medical University. The visit by the Mongolian medical team to the KDCA was conducted at Mongolia's request to strengthen their primary healthcare institutions' capabilities in infectious disease diagnosis, prevention, and treatment by sharing South Korea's infectious disease management system and COVID-19 response experience.

On the 5th, medical staff were busy working at Hyemin Hospital in Gwangjin-gu, a dedicated COVID-19 hospital in Seoul. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency's Central Disease Control Headquarters announced that as of midnight, the number of critically ill patients decreased by 20 from the previous day to 953. This is the lowest number in 22 days since December 14 last year (906 patients). Photo by Moon Honam munonam@

The KDCA shared an overview of its organizational status and development process, COVID-19 response, vaccination, diagnosis, epidemiological investigation, sexually transmitted infection surveillance system, risk communication, and chronic disease management, covering the overall infectious disease management system in South Korea. Through a Q&A session, they also discussed cooperation measures between the two countries in the post-COVID era.

Additionally, the KDCA introduced the comprehensive situation room, which operates 24/7 throughout the year for rapid initial response during domestic and international infectious disease crises, and held an additional Q&A session at the situation room, the frontline of infectious disease response.

Ji Young-mi, Commissioner of the KDCA, stated, "Following visits to the Ministries of Health in Singapore, Thailand, and Dubai, this visit by Mongolian health personnel is significant in that South Korea can contribute to the preparedness and response to emerging infectious diseases in the Asian region by sharing its COVID-19 response experience and excellent infectious disease management system."

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