Ju Gwang-deok, Mayor of Namyangju City, States Rationale for 'Attracting Gyeonggi Northeast Public Medical Center to Namyangju' at Gyeonggi Provincial Assembly

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Eom In-yong] Mayor Ju Gwang-deok of Namyangju City visited the Gyeonggi Provincial Assembly and stated the rationale for attracting the Gyeonggi Northeast Public Medical Center to Namyangju.

On the 24th, Mayor Ju visited the provincial assembly and held meetings with Lee Seon-gu, Chairman of the Health and Welfare Committee, Choi Jong-hyun, the Democratic Party's representative member, and Kim Jung-ho, the People Power Party's representative member. He emphasized the economic and locational strengths Namyangju City possesses to ensure selection in the public competition for choosing a candidate site for the Gyeonggi Northeast Public Medical Center.

Previously, on the 12th, Mayor Ju submitted a proposal for a candidate site to Kim Sung-joong, Vice-Minister of Administration, along with a petition signed by 211,359 citizens expressing their desire to attract the project. By submitting the proposal first among eight candidate sites, he demonstrated strong determination to attract the project.

Mayor Ju Gwang-deok stated, "The Gyeonggi Provincial Medical Center is concentrated only in the southern, southwestern, and central northern regions of Gyeonggi Province. To resolve the imbalance in public healthcare, the newly established public medical center must be located in the eastern region." He further emphasized that "among the eastern region, establishing it in Namyangju City, which has excellent accessibility and the largest patient demand area, is the most rational choice and the optimal location with the highest likelihood of passing the preliminary feasibility study by the Ministry of Strategy and Finance."

He continued, "In the evaluation process to come, external factors must be strictly excluded, and I request that the provincial assembly pay close attention and conduct verification to ensure objective and transparent review by expert groups." He requested fair evaluation.

Meanwhile, Gyeonggi Province has completed preliminary and first quantitative evaluations and plans to form a 'Medical Center Establishment Review Committee' to proceed with a second qualitative evaluation and announce the final selected area by the end of September.