Emergency rooms everywhere are in crisis… Doctors ask, “Are we going to let the front lines collapse?”

Statement from the Korean Society of Emergency Medicine on the 16th
“24-hour care impossible due to lack of personnel”
“Emergency medical support needs to be institutionalized”,

[Cheonan=Newsis] Reporter Park Woo-gyeong = A couple in their 60s who visited Soonchunhyang University Cheonan Hospital, where emergency room operations were suspended on the 16th, are being informed that treatment is difficult. 2024.7.16. [email protected] * Prohibition of redistribution and DB, ‘[Seoul=Newsis] Reporter Baek Young-mi = As the medical vacuum caused by the medical conflict triggered by the increase in medical school admissions continues for the fifth month, emergency rooms, the front line of medical care, are in turmoil in various places, leading emergency medicine specialists to repeatedly urge the development of countermeasures.’,
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, ‘The Korean Society of Emergency Medicine issued a statement on the 16th, stating, “Despite the difficulties of emergency medical personnel shortages after the government’s large-scale increase in medical school admissions and other medical policies, emergency medicine specialists have deeply sympathized with the worries, anxieties, and complaints of emergency patients and their families and have struggled to protect the emergency medical field.”‘,
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, ‘It further stated, “Now, even some regional emergency medical centers, university hospitals, general hospitals’ emergency rooms, and emergency medicine professors (specialists) are being pushed to the point where they are struggling and exhausted and unable to provide 24-hour emergency medical care.”‘,
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, ‘The society asked, “We have already appealed to the public and the government several times through statements. Will the front line of emergency medical care, which protects the lives of our people, collapse?”‘,
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, ‘The society urged, “To protect the lives and safety of the people, we call for the constant institutionalization and support of emergency medical care.”‘,
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, ‘Recently, the emergency room of Sokcho Medical Center in Gangwon Province went into shortened operation again due to the resignation of some emergency medicine specialists, following a similar situation last year. Soonchunhyang University Cheonan Hospital is operating with reduced emergency medical center services as half of the emergency medicine specialists have left the hospital.’,
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, ‘The situation at the National Medical Center, which oversees the National Emergency Medical Centers in each region, is also inevitable due to the mass resignation of emergency medicine specialists.’,
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