Individuals stroll previous the doorway to an emergency room at a hospital in Seoul, Sept. 19. Yonhap
The variety of sufferers who visited hospital emergency rooms dropped 32 % throughout the Chuseok vacation, the well being ministry stated Thursday, assessing that there have been no main disruptions in emergency care.
A protracted walkout by trainee docs had fueled issues about potential disruptions at hospital emergency rooms throughout the vacation, prompting the federal government to ask sufferers with delicate diseases to go to group hospitals.
The typical variety of sufferers who visited emergency rooms stood at 26,983 throughout the vacation, down 32 % from final 12 months’s Chuseok vacation.
Additionally, the variety of sufferers with delicate diseases who visited emergency rooms dropped 39 % on-year throughout the vacation.
“The emergency rooms have been in a position to concentrate on treating critically ailing sufferers as folks with delicate sickness avoided visiting,” Jung Yoon-soon, a senior well being ministry official, informed reporters.
“We want to categorical our gratitude to medical officers who actively participated in efforts to safeguard the well being and lives of the folks over the vacation,” Jung stated. (Yonhap)
