Yanggu County to Fully Cover Ambulance Transportation Costs for Emergency Patients Again This Year

Applied When Transferring from Local Medical Institutions to General or Tertiary Hospitals in Other Regions

On April 24, Yanggu County in Gangwon Special Self-Governing Province (Governor Seo Heungwon) announced that the Yanggu County Public Health Center will continue its program to fully cover ambulance transportation costs for emergency patients, a project that has been in place since last year.

Aerial view of Yanggu County Office, Gangwon Special Self-Governing Province. Photo by Yanggu County Office

The support for ambulance transportation costs for emergency patients is a program designed to ensure prompt medical response in the event of an emergency and to reduce the medical expenses burden on county residents.

This program targets residents who are registered in Yanggu County, either through resident registration or foreigner registration, and who require transfer from a medical institution within Yanggu County to a general hospital or tertiary hospital in another region. The county fully subsidizes the transportation costs for emergency vehicles used by patients with emergency symptoms, ensuring that all residents can access appropriate emergency medical services without cost constraints.

Applications for support must be submitted within 30 days of the transfer. Applicants are required to submit the necessary documents, such as receipts for ambulance use, to the Preventive Medicine Team at the public health center. The public health center will review the submitted documents and provide the subsidy within 15 days.

This program was particularly established to address situations where long-distance transfers to higher-level hospitals in other regions are unavoidable and rapid response is necessary. Due to the high proportion of elderly residents in the area, the county expects that this initiative will help reduce both the economic and psychological burdens faced by patients and their caregivers.

Kim Kyunghee, Director of Health Policy at Yanggu County, stated, "Our goal is to provide a safer and more reassuring medical environment for county residents by supporting ambulance transportation costs," adding, "We will continue to prioritize the lives and health of our residents by steadily advancing public health administrative services."

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