Hwaseong City Establishes Emergency Medical Activation Task Force

Hwaseong City announced on the 4th that it will operate an Emergency Medical Activation Task Force to establish an emergency medical system while strengthening disease prevention education targeting vulnerable populations.

The city has established the Emergency Medical Activation Task Force with the Vice Mayor as head and the participation of city council members, professors of emergency medicine from universities, the Suwon Emergency Medical Information Center, heads of medical and pharmaceutical organizations in the region, emergency medical institutions, and officials from Hwaseong Fire Department to expand emergency medical services.

The Emergency Medical Activation Task Force plans to install emergency equipment at 8 public facilities in the region with a budget of 37.44 million won and strengthen disease prevention and management for vulnerable populations.

Additionally, the task force will designate at least one emergency assistant per village in the western region for vulnerable populations in emergency medical care, and plans to conduct emergency first aid training regularly four times a year.

The task force also plans to provide emergency first aid educational equipment such as cardiopulmonary resuscitation manikins (10 units) and automated external defibrillators (5 units) for loan to middle and high schools in the region, and will hold cardiopulmonary resuscitation competitions with local residents.

Separately, the city plans to designate Hallym University Dongtan Sacred Heart Hospital, scheduled to open in September, as an emergency medical center.

Han Sang-nyeong, Director of the Health Center, said, "We will establish a close cooperative system with relevant organizations and plan to gradually expand emergency medical services centered on the western region, which is a medically vulnerable area, each year."