Busan City Recruiting Service Providers for Mobile Medical Bus Operation

Recruitment of Medical Institutions for Business Consignment from February 1 to 5

Health Care Institutions and Nonprofit Organizations Eligible to Apply

Busan City is recruiting medical institutions to undertake the operation of the 'Medical Bus' service as part of the Visiting Health Medical Service project from February 1 to 5.

The 'Visiting Health Medical Service project' involves a 'Medical Bus' equipped with advanced medical equipment, where professional medical staff directly visit medically underserved groups to provide specialized examinations, health consultations, and other medical services.

To prevent the rapid increase in medical expenses in Busan, which has entered a super-aged society, the project visits vulnerable groups in medical blind spots who find it difficult to visit medical institutions for various reasons, providing specialized examinations and consultations to check their health status.

The main duties of the entrusted institution include ▲supporting medical services for medically vulnerable groups using the Medical Bus ▲linking with related organizations for chronic disease management and follow-up care ▲promoting the Medical Bus, with the consignment period from March 1, 2024, to December 31, 2026.

The five currently operating Medical Buses will be entrusted individually.

Applicants must be health medical institutions or non-profit organizations related to health care located in the city, and the application period is from February 1 to 5.

Applicants should complete the application form and other required documents and submit them in person to the City Health and Hygiene Division (Medical Support Team).

For detailed information on recruiting entrusted medical institutions, please refer to the announcement posted in the notice section on the Busan City website.

To help medical institutions understand the project, the city will hold an online project briefing session for 30 minutes starting at 2 p.m. on the 22nd, and individual consultations will be conducted for interested medical institutions for one week until the 26th.

The online briefing session will be held via Zoom, and participation is possible through the link provided in the announcement.

Marking the third year of the Visiting Medical Service project, the city plans to further stabilize the project this year so that citizens can receive professional medical services close to where they live and manage their health in daily life, expecting it to evolve into a health project that citizens can tangibly experience.

To ensure the stable establishment of the project, the city plans to promote project standardization through research services, continuous health management, and data-driven customized health policies.

Last year, the city expanded the project target beyond welfare center users to include citizens living in hard-to-reach areas such as Sanbok-ro, jjokbangchon (small room villages), Sanseong Village, as well as homeless people, platform workers, and people with disabilities who have difficulty visiting hospitals, providing medical services to 8,459 citizens.

Additionally, to promote and advance the project, efforts were made to establish a medical expense support system for patients with severe diseases, build a data management system, participate in various international events, and lay the groundwork for linking local medical resources through memorandums of understanding (MOUs) with regional medical organizations.

Lee Sora, Director of the Citizen Health Bureau of Busan City, stated, “The Visiting Health Medical Service project, now in its third year, is being stably established with the empathy and satisfaction of citizens,” and added, “We hope that capable medical institutions will participate in this recruitment so that the Visiting Health Medical Service can grow into a health platform for citizens.”

A scene of mobile health care services.

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