By The Straits Times | Created at 2024-11-26 02:16:09 | Updated at 2024-11-26 04:36:13
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SEOUL – Seoul city announced on Nov 25 that it has launched two urgent care clinics and four specialised clinics to address the challenges patients requiring urgent care for non-severe conditions faced during evenings and holidays.
The centres are expected to alleviate patients’ challenges accessing medical care, following a prolonged stand-off between the government and trainee doctors, according to city officials.
The two urgent care clinics, one in Yangcheon-gu and the other one in Songpa-gu, are to treat non-critical conditions that frequently result in emergency room visits, such as injury, abdominal pain, cough, fever and vomiting.
Meanwhile, specialised clinics opened in four districts -- Gangseo, Mapo, Gwangjin and Gangdong -- will primarily treat patients with injuries.
If symptoms do not improve after initial emergency care or if patients are diagnosed as critical, they will be transferred to nearby higher-level medical facilities, according to the city government.
“We plan to increase the number of these centres and broaden the specialised clinics to cover fields like ophthalmology and obstetrics,” the city government said. THE KOREA HERALD / ASIA NEWS NETWORK
