{"id":1152654,"date":"2021-12-25T02:49:45","date_gmt":"2021-12-25T07:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1152654"},"modified":"2021-12-25T02:49:46","modified_gmt":"2021-12-25T07:49:46","slug":"south-korea-kicking-people-out-of-icus-over-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/south-korea-kicking-people-out-of-icus-over-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea Kicking People Out of ICUs over Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsouth-korea-kicking-people-out-of-icus-over-coronavirus%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1152654&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">South Korea ordered Chinese coronavirus patients currently receiving treatment for their symptoms in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) nationwide to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.koreaherald.com\/view.php?ud=20211223000654\">vacate<\/a> their beds immediately on Wednesday in an effort to ease a pandemic-induced hospital bed shortage across the country, the <em>Korean Herald<\/em> reported Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s Ministry of Health and Welfare issued ejection notices to 210 ICU patients on December 22. The order applies to coronavirus patients who have been hospitalized in ICUs for more than 20 consecutive days. Patients who refuse to comply with the forced discharge face a fine of up to 1 million won ($842 USD).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The South Korean Health Ministry said 71 patients had obeyed the order as of Thursday morning. Public health authorities have arranged for these patients to move to non-coronavirus ICUs \u201cor other \u2018step-down\u2019 beds providing less intensive care accordingly,\u201d the ministry said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Starting last week, South Korean health officials informed hospitals nationwide they would soon begin <a href=\"http:\/\/www.koreaherald.com\/view.php?ud=20211221000709\">capping<\/a> the length of ICU stays for Chinese coronavirus patients to 20 days maximum. After the 20-day mark, \u201cthe national health insurance waiver for COVID-19 [Chinese coronavirus]-related treatment costs will end for patients and hospitals will no longer be given aid,\u201d Seoul warned.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18515410\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Korea.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18515410\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Korea.jpeg\" alt=\"A health official from Yongsan district, wearing personal protective equipment (PPE), sprays anti-septic solution at outside stores in an alley of Itaewon district to prevent the spread of coronavirus ahead of Halloween on October 29, 2021 in Seoul, South Korea. (Chung Sung-Jun\/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A health official from Yongsan district sprays anti-septic solution in an alley of Itaewon district to prevent the spread of coronavirus ahead of Halloween on October 29, 2021 in Seoul, South Korea. (Chung Sung-Jun\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Doctors may petition the South Korean Health Ministry to allow exceptions to the rule, but this must now be done through more formal means than before. Under the new measure, a doctor must justify through official documents why he or she believes a patient would need to stay in the ICU longer than the government-allotted time frame.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s federal government decided on the 20-day ICU limit for coronavirus patients as part of its ongoing efforts to mitigate the country\u2019s hospital bed shortage, which is reportedly reaching a crisis level. Park Hyang, a senior South Korean Health Ministry official, defended the time limits placed on ICU beds on Wednesday, saying they are <a href=\"https:\/\/elaw.klri.re.kr\/eng_mobile\/ganadaDetail.do?hseq=37239&amp;type=abc&amp;key=INFECTIOUS%20DISEASE%20CONTROL%20AND%20PREVENTION%20ACT&amp;param=I\">based<\/a> on precedents set by laws pertaining to South Korea\u2019s Infectious Disease Control and Prevention Act.<\/p>\n<p>Roughly 80 percent of all ICU beds within coronavirus hospital wings in South Korea were occupied as of December 23 at midnight, according to estimates by state health authorities. The occupancy rate on the same night for such beds in greater Seoul \u2014 home to nearly 10 million residents \u2014 was estimated at 85 percent.<\/p>\n<p>At least 52 people in South Korea died while waiting for a hospital bed between November 1 and December 18, according to data from the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea ordered Chinese coronavirus patients currently receiving treatment for their symptoms in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) nationwide to vacate their beds immediately on Wednesday in an effort to ease &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1152654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1152654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1152654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1152654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1152654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}