Save Daegu! Professors jumped into the COVID-19 front

They have been dispatched to the Life Care Center

Act as controller at each center and will also be dispatched to the Daenam Hospital

The Life Care Center for the mild COVID-19 confirmed patients in Daegu and Gyeongbuk area is opening one after another, and the dispatch of large hospital medical staff to manage it continues.

 

In effect, they are acting as controller for the management of patients who enter the care center.

 

According to the medical community on the 6th, medical staff from major university hospitals in Seoul were dispatched to the Life Care Centers in Daegu and Gyeongbuk.

 

In order to treat patients with COVID-19, which are concentrated in the Daegu and Gyeongbuk areas, the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters, (CDSCHQ) started and operated with the Daegu-1 Center (the National Training Institute of Education, Science and Technology), the Gyeongbuk & Daegu-1 Center (Samsung Human Resource Development Center), and Gyeongbuk & Daegu-2 Center (Nonghyup Gyeongju Education Center) in turn.

 

At the same time, a total of five locations including the Gyeongbuk Daegu-3 Life Care Center (Seoul National University Hospital Human Resources Development Center) and the Gyeongbuk Daegu-4 Care Center (Chilgok Hanti Retreat House Catholic Archdiocese of Daegu ) have been in operation since the 5th.

 

From left: Prof.

 

Jae-Tae Lee (Nuclear medicine, KNU Hospital), Prof.

 

Cheol Jung (Preventive medicine, the SMC), and Prof.

 

Jang-Wook Son, the KMC

#Among them, except for the Daegu-1 Center, which was first opened and operated by Professor Jae-Tae Lee, medical teams in Seoul are dispatched and are in charge of treatment.

 

Specifically, the Kyungpook Daegu-1 Center and Gyeongbuk Daegu-2 Center are operated by the SMC and the KUMC respectively.

 

Prof.

 

Cheol Jung, who leads the Suwon Health Examination Center in Gangbuk Samsung Hospital, is going down to look for COVID-19 confirmed patients.

 

Professor Jung, who also holds two specializations in preventive medicine and occupational environmental medicine, serves as the head of the Health Center, but he is the first to volunteer for dispatch to Daegu and Gyeongbuk.

 

In the case of the KMC, a support team centered on Prof.

 

Jang-wook Son, infectious medicine, is in charge of treatment at the center in Gyeongju Nonghyup Education Center.

 

In particular, Professor Son moves to other centers as well as his center, which he specializes in, and he is also working directly with patients and medical staff to prevent infectious diseases.

 

Subsequently, the centers were also recruited by medical staff from Hospitals in Seoul.

 

In case of the Kyungpook Daegu-3 Center, the medical staff of Seoul National University Hospital will take care of it.

 

Min-sun Kim , head of the Public Health and Welfare Center (Pediatrics), has four specialists, 12 nurses, and imaging and diagnostic tests personnel.

 

Medical staff at Seoul St.

 

Mary's Hospital was assigned at the Kyungpook Daegu-4 Center.

 

It was confirmed to have a support team centered on professors, Hye-ran Jeon in the department of mental health medicine..

 

From left: Prof.

 

Hye-ran Jeon , Prof.

 

Min-sun Kim, Prof.

 

Jae Sun Eom, & Prof.

 

Sangwon Chung

#In addition to the centers, there are also a large number of hospital staff members dispatched to Daegu and Gyeongbuk.

 

In the case of Severance Hospital, a support team centered on Professor Jae-sun Eum of Cardiac Medicine is helping to treat COVID-19 confirmed patients at Keimyung University Dongsan Medical Center.

 

Although Prof.

 

Um was dispatched as a primary support team, he will continue to stay at the Daegu medical site after returning to the secondary support team.

 

Moreover, he is the opening member of Yongin Severance Hospital, which opened in March.

 

In addition, in case of Cheongdo Daenam Hospital, where the situation of COVID-19 is improving, since the beginning of the crisis, Professor Sangwon Chung of the Department of Emergency Medicine, Ilsan Hospital, has been dispatched to treat patients.

 

Ilsan Hospital colleague said, "Daenam Hospital is still working as a cohort isolation hospital in order to block the spread of COVID-19.

 

Since the beginning of the crisis, he has been playing a role in Daenam Hospital, he volunteers and works at the front line to solve the COVID-19 incident".