Seogangseok, Songpa District Mayor, Visits Seoul Asan Hospital to Request Cooperation in Minimizing Medical Service Gaps

Songpa-gu Launches Full-Scale Operation of Disaster Safety Countermeasures Headquarters... Health Center Hours Extended to 8 PM
Seo District Mayor Visits Seoul Asan Hospital on 26th... Actively Requests Cooperation to Minimize Medical Gaps... "Focusing All Administrative Efforts to Protect Residents' Health"

Seogangseok, Mayor of Songpa-gu, visited Seoul Asan Medical Center in the area at 3:30 PM on the 26th to check the emergency medical system of the institution following the collective resignation of resident doctors and requested active cooperation to minimize medical service gaps.

Seoul Asan Medical Center, the largest tertiary hospital in Korea with 2,705 beds, receives an average of 10,000 visitors daily nationwide. It was designated as a regional emergency medical center in 2008, providing emergency medical services for the southeastern Seoul area, and in 2018, it was designated as a pediatric specialized emergency medical center, responsible for treating severe pediatric emergency patients.

On this day, Mayor Seo met with Park Seung-il, Director of Seoul Asan Medical Center, and other hospital officials, expressing gratitude to the medical staff who remain on site with a sense of duty to treat patients despite difficult conditions and commended their hard work.

He continued, “However, public concern is very high due to the actualization of medical service gaps recently,” and requested cooperation, stating, “Close cooperation with Seoul Asan Medical Center is more necessary than ever to protect the health and lives of the people.”

Additionally, Mayor Seo toured the Infection Control Center and promised active support to minimize medical service gaps.

The district has been operating an emergency medical response headquarters since the 6th in preparation for the collective resignation of resident doctors, but it has been expanded and reorganized into a Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters since the 23rd.

Accordingly, Songpa-gu Public Health Center has extended weekday medical services until 8 PM, is inspecting the operation of 24-hour emergency medical institutions in the area, managing the operation of night and holiday medical institutions (hospitals, pharmacies), checking the closure status of clinic-level medical institutions, and providing information on operating medical institutions.

Seogangseok, Mayor of Songpa-gu, stated, “We will concentrate all administrative capabilities to ensure the regional emergency medical system operates flawlessly, striving to minimize medical service gaps and focus on responding without neglect to protect the lives and health of the people.”

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