Separation of medical treatment rights at large hospitals in Yangju, a planned city for 500,000 people, runs counter to the local era.
Signatures are being sought for the separation and re-establishment of medical treatment rights in order to attract large hospitals... Politicians are likely to resolve the issue before the general election
[Break News Yangju = Reporter Kim Wan-young] Yangju-si, Gyeonggi-do (Mayor Kang Soo-hyun) announced on the 6th that it is seeking to sign a motion to separate and reset mid-care treatment rights to attract large hospitals.
According to the 3rd basic policy for 2023-2027 (Ministry of Health and Welfare), Yangju City is currently organized into the Uijeongbu treatment area and is classified as an area with limited supply of hospital beds due to oversupply of hospital beds. Not only is the supply of additional hospital beds limited, but the number of hospital beds is gradually decreasing. It is scheduled to be reduced.
This will put a brake on Yangju City's efforts to change the medical environment in proportion to the growing population, and it will be impossible to attract high-level medical institutions such as large hospitals, so the majority of patients requiring hospitalization will have no choice but to use medical institutions outside the city, as they do now.
According to city officials, Yangju City is the only medically vulnerable area in northern Gyeonggi Province that does not even have emergency medical facilities. Not only is it an area where acute care cannot be properly received within a reasonable time, but also in the event of an infectious disease such as COVID-19, there are no hospital beds, so it is necessary to respond to infectious diseases by transferring them to other cities and counties. There are no necessary hospital beds.
Accordingly, the city plans to actively carry out a signature campaign to separate and reset mid-sized medical treatment rights online and offline in order to establish new medical treatment rights separately from Yangju City or with nearby cities and counties, taking into account regional characteristics such as attracting large hospitals, medical use, and medical living areas. am.
Mr. A, a citizen of Yangju, said, “The people will no longer allow such a ridiculous political situation in which President Yoon Seok-yeol was unable to build a decent shopping mall in the region at the ‘Local Era Declaration Ceremony’ of the Presidential Local Era Committee held at the Busan International Finance Center.” He said angrily, “For Yangju citizens living in an age of hyper-aging, quality medical services are more important than shopping malls.”
Mayor Kang Soo-hyun appealed, “Please join us in signing so that Yangju City can be separated from the ‘Uijeongbu Intermediate Medical Area’ so that Yangju City’s efforts to attract large hospitals will not go to waste.”
Meanwhile, Yangju City has a powerful, mid-level member of the National Assembly. This is a matter that must be resolved politically by the central government, and the candidate who solves this issue before next year's general election is expected to have an advantage in the election.
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