Please use nearby local clinics and hospitals for evening and holiday hours for mild and non-emergency patients

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Kim Gab-dong] In preparation for the period of physicians' collective action, Gyeonggi Province will provide guidance on night and holiday care hospitals starting the 24th so that severe emergency patients can receive prompt treatment in emergency rooms, and mild and non-emergency patients can use nearby clinics and hospitals. The guidance will be available through the Gyeonggi Province website (www.gg.go.kr), the 120 call center, and 119 (Emergency Management Center).

The 748 hospitals and clinics being guided are primarily selected from five medical departments—cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, neurosurgery, orthopedics, and pediatrics—which can reduce burden on emergency rooms due to visits from mild and non-emergency patients. The province particularly urged mild and non-emergency patients in these five departments to use nearby clinics and hospitals so as not to burden emergency room operations.

Information on emergency medical institutions, including 73 emergency medical institutions equipped with emergency rooms, can be checked in real time through the Gyeonggi Province website, the Emergency Medical Portal (www.e-gen.or.kr), and the mobile app "Emergency Medical Information Provision (e-gen)".

The province confirmed the operational status and conditions of each emergency medical institution through the Provincial Emergency Medical Coordination Committee meeting presided over by Administrative Vice Governor Oh Byung-kwon, and plans to work closely with 119 emergency response teams to support smooth hospital transfers.

Administrative Vice Governor Oh Byung-kwon stated, "During the physicians' collective action period, available medical resources are limited, and there may be inconvenience for severe emergency patients using emergency rooms," and added, "We ask for cooperation so that mild and non-emergency patients can check and use nearby medical institutions capable of evening and holiday care."