SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said Wednesday that the car insurance medical charge criteria will be revised, effective from next week, towards limiting the scope of eligibility for exceptional cases where victims of traffic accidents can use private or semi-private rooms at all kinds of medical institutions [...]
SEOUL, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government has teamed up with twelve high-level general hospitals to launch customized care services including cleaning and food delivery for discharged patients with mobility difficulties, among others, elderly and disabled people. The city government announced on Wednesday that it will launch the “SOS Center Connect Service [...]
SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean embassy in Mexico has donated three pieces of medical equipment valued at US$76,000 to the Korea-Mexico friendship hospital located in Mérida, capital of the Mexican state of Yucatan. The donation includes mobile ultrasonic diagnosis equipment, a mobile X-ray scanner and a video electroencephalogram (EEG) monitoring device. [...]
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, [...]