Munhwa Ilbo reported that, according to the government's report titled "Basic Plan for the Re-establishment of Medical Institutions and their Functions," there has been a growing interest in redefining the functions and roles of medical facilities into three categories: neighborhood clinics handling outpatients, hospitals taking inpatients, and larger hospitals focusing on patients suffering from serious aliments and cancer.
According to the basic plan released on the 17th regarding health and welfare, the current hospital system is set to change, with clinics focusing on regular illness, chronic diseases, and primary health care. Hospitals will develop specialty joint and burn units, and higher-grade general hospitals will focus care and research on patients in serious condition.
Yonhap News reports that this re-purposing would be beneficial to the Korean medical system's chronic disorder which suffers from a number of related problems such as the duplication of efforts by clinics, hospitals, and larger hospitals, causing supply and demand inefficiencies such as investment in the overstock of sickbeds and expensive medical equipment. The existing problems, in turn, cause financial aggravation and unnecessary strain on patients and resources. Patients and hospitals are already expressing disagreement with the proposed changes; therefore, the future success of these remedies remain to be seen.
Translated by Bret Chernoff
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