Call 119 If You Don't Know Which Hospital to Visit During Chuseok Holiday

[Suwon Ilbo=Park No-hun Reporter] The Gyeonggi Province Fire Department has implemented emergency management procedures during the Chuseok holiday to manage emergency patients, including identifying the status of hospitals and clinics throughout the province.

According to the Gyeonggi Province Fire Department on the 16th, from 6 p.m. on the 17th to 9 a.m. on the 23rd during this holiday period, 391 out of 860 hospitals in the province (including 65 emergency rooms) and 5,654 out of 15,303 clinics will continue normal operations.

Among the province's 5,341 pharmacies, 3,239 will remain open during the holiday.

The Fire Department plans to educate all situation staff members receiving 119 emergency calls on how to provide information about the hospitals, clinics, and pharmacies identified to ensure seamless guidance.

Additionally, emergency care managers will be stationed 24 hours a day to provide professional first aid including cardiopulmonary resuscitation and various emergency consultation guidance in case of emergency situations such as accidents and traffic accidents.

According to the Gyeonggi Province Fire Department, the daily average number of consultation calls during last year's Chuseok holiday period was 923, compared to the average of 566 daily consultation calls last year, representing a 63% increase.

During the 2018 and 2019 Chuseok holidays, the calls increased by 106% and 99% respectively compared to each year's annual daily average consultation cases.

Jo Chang-rae, director of the Disaster Integrated Command Center at the Gyeonggi Province Fire Department, said, "Delivering accurate medical facility information so that residents can properly respond to emergency situations is a major goal of our holiday response," and added, "We will do our best to ensure that residents have a comfortable and safe Chuseok holiday, no different from usual, during the holiday period."

Meanwhile, medical facility information can also be easily found on the Emergency Medical Portal (www.e-gen.or.kr).