President Moon wearing a mask visited the NMC

Emphasized full inspection of all people entering the airport and secondary infection prevention

Instructed the medical institutions and the KCDC to be alert to the performance of obligations

President Moon Jae-in visits the National Medical Center in the morning on the 28th for a briefing on Wuhan pneumonia.

Cheong Wa Dae announced at 10:31 am on the 28th that President Moon Jae-in visited the National Medical Center, which is treating a new type of coronavirus infection, and directly inspected the field response system and ordered a total response posture.

 

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Moon made this report at the spot where he received on-site response system reports such as patient selection criteria, response measures, and operation procedures for screening clinics from the Director of National Medical Center Ki-hyun Chung and the Director of operation support team, Yeon-jae Kim.

 

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Moon said, "The government needs to be powerful and speedy enough to evaluate the preemptive measures a little too much, and investigate all persons who have passed through the airport asymptomatically and quarantine those who have confirmed symptoms and take measures to prevent secondary infections as much as possible".

 

President Moon emphasized that such measures should be made transparent to the public to relieve anxiety.

 

In particular, Cheong Wa Dae said that President Moon called for greater awareness of where medical institutions did not use the contact function (to the KCDC or the public health centers) or are not complying with their obligations to do so.

 

President Moon Jae-in visits the National Medical Center on the 28th and checks the field response system.

On the other hand, President Moon visited medical staff, screening clinic, negative pressure ambulance, and on-site emergency clinic where mobile X-rays could be taken.

 

He boarded the mobile CT vehicle and listened carefully to the explanations from the director and the officials.

 

In addition, President Moon called for efforts to resolve local anxiety by asking whether the NMC has enough know-how as a nationally-designed quarantine bed when the MERS outbreak occurred.In addition, and the status of securing a nationally designated quarantine bed.

 

President Moon also visited a negative pressure containment ward where a second Korean confirmed patient was admitted to the hospital to check the patient's condition, as well as concerns about the possibility of secondary infections caused by asymptomatic community activities and related measures.

 

President Moon also received reports from the vice director, Im seok Ko, on the status of the wards and the system for responding to infectious diseases at each stage.

 

President Moon asked if there were any concerns about the spread of infections in screening systems, quarantine beds, and negative pressure rooms.

 

This is because inpatients during the MERS outbreak were infected with other patients, clients and medical staff.

 

The vice director said, “The hospital was shut down in a severe stage during the MERS outbreak, treated 60 patients with MERS, and there was no hospital infection at all, and as it is more systematically developed, I don't think there is any possibility of infection in the hospital or transmission of local infections”.

 

President Moon praised the medical staff at the National Medical Center, which had suffered during the New Year's holidays, and said he hopes to deal with it without slowing down until the end.