Health officials in Seoul are under pressure to rush to secure ample hospital beds

記事入力 : 2020/03/12 10:20
韓国首都圏で確定患者急増「今発生したものではなく、とうとう発見されたもの」

Top Doctor Slams Gov't 'Oversight' of Seoul Infection Risk
english.chosun.com
March 12, 2020 11:52

Choi Jae-wook

"The Seoul metropolitan region has a high population density as well as a large number of foreigners, so it's the most vulnerable area," Choi said. "But it looks like health officials overlooked this fact as they focused their resources on checking incoming visitors from abroad, finding elusive Shincheonji sect followers and containing the outbreak in Daegu and North Gyeongsang Province."
The total number of confirmed infections in the Seoul metropolitan region reached 368 on Wednesday, more than doubling since March 1.

Epidemiologists warn that the situation could get out of hand as a massive outbreak in Seoul, surrounding Gyeonggi Province and Incheon to the west could mirror the chaotic scenes in Daegu and North Gyeongsang Province.

But the failure led to a shortage of hospital beds in the city, while some carriers died at home while waiting for available hospital beds. Quarantine officials fumbled by failing to distinguish between carriers with mild and serious symptoms in allocating hospital beds.
Health officials in the Seoul metropolitan area are therefore under pressure to rush to secure ample hospital beds and detect serious cases early on to prevent further deaths.
One plan is to turn state-run hospitals and military medical centers into emergency wards catering to people with telltale symptoms.

Lee Wang-joon, the head of the coronavirus response team at the Korea Hospital Association, said, "It looks like we are one or two months behind the infection trend seen in China."
The outbreak possibly started in Wuhan, China spiked in early January and eased in early March. That would mean the outbreak in Korea will subside in early April since it started here in late January.

日本語版と英語版で微妙に違う。
病床数が足りなくて感染者は自宅で入院を待ちながら死んでいくケースもでている、と。ソウルでは、役人が、病床数確保しなければ、と奔走しており、国立病院や軍隊の病院を緊急病棟にしたてて、特徴的な症状がでている患者の面倒をみようじゃないか、という案がでている、と。

韓国は中国の二ヶ月遅れで、韓国が落ち着きをみせるのは、４月初旬じゃないか、と。

もっと検査しておけば・・みたいなこと言っているところが、まだ、わかっていないところだろうねええ。