SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s overseas aid agency said it had built an additional ward for a hospital it set up in El Alto, a Bolivian city located at an altitude of 4,150 meters, one of the highest major cities in the world, aimed at supporting the health of local citizens. El [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul National University Hospital successfully completed a liver transplant procedure without leaving scars for both the organ donor and recipient using a robot and a laparoscope. The hospital announced on Tuesday that it had succeeded in excising the liver of a donor and transplanting it in a recipient using [...]
DAEJEON, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — BTS’ dedicated fan base ARMY sent gifts to a hospital that took care of a toddler infected with COVID-19. Fans of K-pop superstar from the southern resort island of Jeju sent gifts and snacks to Konyang University Hospital in the central city of Daejeon, enclosed with a letter of [...]
CHANGWON, June 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of young disabled musicians have become formal members of an orchestra set up by a local hospital. Hanmaum Hospital in Changwon, South Gyeongsang Province founded an orchestra by hiring a group of disabled musicians on Thursday. The orchestra consists of 20 members, all of whom have a [...]
SEOUL, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Kyung Hee University Medical Center introduced a video conference system to allow communication with patients at the neonatal intensive care unit, which has enforced a no-visitor policy following the coronavirus outbreak. The hospital currently limits the number of visitors to one guardian per ward, and has banned all entry [...]
JEJU, April 12 (Korea Bizwire) — On a recent sunny spring day, the beautiful sound of piano resonated throughout the first floor lobby at Jeju National University Hospital in Jeju Island. The source of the music was pianist Lee Eun-hyung, 35, whose father, Lee Chang-hyo, 64, has been receiving chemotherapy at the hospital since 2017. Now, [...]
SEOUL, March 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s overseas aid agency said Thursday that it will construct the first intensive care hospital in Iraq by 2023, as part of efforts to help the Middle East country strengthen its medical services. The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) said that under a support project worth US$39.5 million, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid ongoing controversy over the mandatory installation of surveillance cameras in hospital operating rooms to prevent medical malpractice, a local plastic surgery hospital is drawing attention as it has taken measures to enable real-time monitoring of surgical operations. BK Plastic Surgery Hospital in Seoul announced on Monday that it [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A local hospital in Seoul has introduced virtual reality (VR) technology to train nurses in an ‘untact’ (contactless) environment in order to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Asan Medical Center announced Monday that it has set up a VR training platform to enable trainees to study in virtual [...]
BANGALORE, India and PUNE, India, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Juniper Networks, a leader in secure, AI-driven networks, today announced that it has been selected by the Dr. D.Y. Patil Hospital & Research Centre in Pune, one of Asia’s leading medical institutes1, for its network upgrade. This will greatly simplify the hospital’s network configuration, management and maintenance and [...]