‘Creating a City Good for Raising Children’ … Gumi Mayor Checks Sites from the First Day of the New Year

"Creating a Happy Gumi for Children," First Cheer Message of the New Year

1st Anniversary Celebration, Visit to 365 Pediatric and Adolescent Care Center

Kim Jang-ho, Mayor of Gumi City, prioritized ‘population policy’ as the top agenda in his New Year's address this year, and as his first official schedule of the 2024 Gapjin year, he visited the ‘365 Pediatric and Adolescent Medical Center.’

Kim Jang-ho, Mayor of Gumi, visiting the 365 Pediatric and Adolescent Care Center.

On the first day of the new year, he visited the ‘365 Pediatric and Adolescent Medical Center,’ toured the facility, and encouraged the medical staff who have been working hard to provide public medical services even during the holidays.

As the top pledge project of the 8th elected term, the ‘365 Pediatric and Adolescent Medical Center,’ which marked its first anniversary on January 1, 2023, has gained nationwide attention as a successful childcare policy case of a basic local government. It has established a specialized public pediatric care system unique to Gumi City, serving about 750 patients monthly and approximately 8,800 annually. Notably, users from neighboring areas account for 30% of the total users, reflecting strong public response.

Accordingly, the city plans to secure national and provincial funding to enhance the quality of medical services and reduce regional disparities, thereby strengthening a more comprehensive health and medical safety net.

Along with this, Gumi City is expanding support projects for healthy pregnancy and childbirth, including increasing childbirth congratulatory money by 500,000 to 1,000,000 KRW per birth order starting from babies born in 2024, operating the Gumi-style Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), running a KakaoTalk channel for pregnancy and childbirth, and providing psychological counseling programs for infertile couples.

Furthermore, to overcome the low birthrate atmosphere, the city is focusing on expanding various multi-child support policies. Since launching the first multi-child mobile app in Gyeongbuk in November 2022, it has discovered over 400 affiliated stores and public facilities within the jurisdiction to offer various discount benefits. It is also expanding highly tangible support measures for multi-child families, such as free public parking and water bill discounts for families with three or more children.

Mayor Kim Jang-ho stated, “In the new year of 2024, the Gapjin year, we will open a ‘bigger and more hopeful era of Gumi City.’ While drawing the big picture of Gumi’s 100-year future blueprint, we will create a ‘city where children are happy and child-rearing is good’ through meticulous welfare and active support across society, from having children to raising and educating them.”

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