SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of requests from emergency rescue workers to find hospitals for patients has more than doubled this year compared to last year, amid prolonged emergency room disruptions nationwide, the fire agency said Wednesday. 119 emergency control centers nationwide selected hospitals to accommodate emergency patients on 1,197 occasions from [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – The health ministry on Wednesday began deploying military doctors and public physicians to hospital emergency rooms suffering from staff shortages, but concerns about further disruptions to the health care system have grown, officials said. The government deployed 15 military doctors to assist in emergency rooms of five hospitals, including [...]
SEOUL, Aug.6 (Korea Bizwire) – A pilot project in which ER doctors view real time video footage of patients through smartphones and coach paramedics to provide better first aid treatment as they are transferred is expected to start during the latter half of this year. According to the Ministry of Health and Welfare, nine emergency medical [...]