Children's infectious diseases are expected to increase this year...The Korea Pediatric Youth Hospital Association should establish a regular response system
Jan 15, 2025
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Chairman Choi Yong-jae of the Korea Hospital Association held a press conference in the conference room on the 14th floor of the Korea Hospital Association on the 15th and said, "Since the outbreak of various childhood infectious diseases such as flu, whooping cough, mycoplasma, and RSV has not stopped after the COVID-19 pandemic, the medical staff of the pediatric and adolescent hospital treating them are providing very difficult treatment."This year, it is imperative to establish a regular pediatric infectious disease system to prepare a preemptive response strategy to prevent the outbreak of childhood infectious diseases."
Chairman Choi Yong-jae said, `Last year, a child died from whooping cough, which should never happen, and the government authorities used it as a teacher to prepare countermeasures, but we still faced 2025 as if the measures were a countermeasureHe pointed out that "this year's pediatric medical system will become more serious due to the resignation of the major of the public prosecution and the continued avoidance of the major, and the pediatric medical field will become a disaster in conjunction with the outbreak of infectious diseases."
In particular, this concern was evident in a survey conducted by the Korea Pediatric Youth Hospital Association on the increase in childhood infections from the 9th to the 13th of this year on the representatives of member hospitals.
In response to the question of what various childhood infections will look like this year, 38 out of 43 respondents, or 85%, said they would increase, and 46% of them gave a grim forecast that the increase would be more than 20% from last year.
In addition, the most prevalent childhood infectious disease this year is metapneumovirus disease, and 13 out of 43 survey participants, or 30%, answered. Next, 6 out of 43 (13%), 5 out of 43 (12%), and 4 out of 43 adenoviruses (9%) answered flu.
This survey has great implications in that it targeted the representative director of the pediatric and adolescent hospital, who is in charge of pediatric infectious diseases at the forefront of pediatric medical care.
Chairman Choi Yong-jae said, `To facilitate hospital treatment, the representatives of pediatric and youth hospitals frequently analyze various indicators such as disease statistics and establish treatment plans, especially due to the serious collapse of pediatric medical care and childhood infectious diseases that have increased significantly since the COVID-19 pandemicThe representatives of pediatric hospitals are very concerned about the increase in pediatric infections and expect a significant increase in pediatric infections this year, and the government should take the policy of pulling the reins hard from the beginning of the new year to prevent our children from suffering from childhood infections anymore" he stressed
Accordingly, the Korea Pediatric Youth Hospital Association said "We decided to break down the pediatric infectious disease as the key task for this year." In line with this, we desperately hope that the government authorities will hit the head with the aim of slowing the growth of pediatric infectious diseases."
Chairman Choi said, `Rather than tinkering with the increasing number of childhood infections that have continued for several years, I strongly suggest that the government should not hesitate to put its head together with a pediatrician to prevent children from being attacked by the future of the Republic of Korea and children from spending their days in pain this year," he said repeatedly.
Chairman Choi reiterated that `the current situation desperately requires a proactive forward-looking response instead of a post-medical visit.' Above all in the region, all critically ill patients in Gangwon-do and Chungnam have great difficulties, so it is urgent to come up with measures first.'
Chairman Choi then said, "The network pilot project, which was launched by the Ministry of Health and Welfare for the first time only for pediatric and adolescent patients, needs to be expanded and supported to a precious system such as welcome rain for children amid the collapsed medical delivery system." he stressed.
It was difficult because there were no medical institutions to transfer serious pediatric patients, but it is necessary to expand the hard-established network pilot project's medical delivery system to play its role and role.
In addition, "In order to prevent complications and critical illness, the promotion of the fever clinic is required along with the extension of the support period for competent fever clinics."
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
