SEOUL, April 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Half of emergency patients with heart attacks, strokes, and severe injuries did not make it to the emergency room in time in the last five years, a lawmaker said Tursday. According to a report submitted to Rep. Choi Hye-young of the Democratic Party by the National Medical Center, 49.1 [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of all patients brought to the emergency room are mildly ill, while only 7 in 100 come for serious emergencies. Experts are pointing out that this is the result of exploiting emergency rooms as a route to enter large hospitals, undermining the original responsibilities of emergency [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Three out of 10 people rushed to the emergency room after attempting suicide were found to have tried to take their own life on previous occasions. Moreover, a portion of these people were thinking of making another suicide attempt within the next six months. The Ministry of Health and [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – When the Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome swept Korea earlier this year, Samsung Medical Center was at the center of the epidemic, not as a healing center for the deadly disease, but as the source of the outbreak. Among the 186 patients who contracted MERS, almost half (91) were infected at the [...]