Schools, hospitals respond to flu fears
Published: 24 Aug. 2009, 06:20
The continued spread of the A(HINI) virus is keeping students at home at the start of the fall semester and forcing hospitals to prepare quarantine zones for the sick, the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology said yesterday.
Sixteen schools in seven provinces and cities remain closed because of outbreaks of the new flu in their communities.
Meanwhile, general hospitals have prepared measures to separate patients infected with the new flu form other patients. Asan Medical Center in Songpa District, eastern Seoul, will use three shipping containers as isolation wards.
“Flu patients with rapidly developing pneumonia require artificial respiration,” said Dr. Ko Yun-seok of the hospital. Currently, there are 16 mobile resuscitation units in the center.
Samsung Medical Center in southern Seoul will build two containers to be used to diagnose and treat flu patients in front of its emergency room by the end of this month.
A total of 2,925 confirmed cases of the new type of influenza have been reported in Korea, two of whom have died as of yesterday.
The first case involved a woman in her 50s who was found to have caught the disease during a trip to Mexico in May.
By Hwang Se-hee, Jung Hyun-mok [[email protected]]
Sixteen schools in seven provinces and cities remain closed because of outbreaks of the new flu in their communities.
Meanwhile, general hospitals have prepared measures to separate patients infected with the new flu form other patients. Asan Medical Center in Songpa District, eastern Seoul, will use three shipping containers as isolation wards.
“Flu patients with rapidly developing pneumonia require artificial respiration,” said Dr. Ko Yun-seok of the hospital. Currently, there are 16 mobile resuscitation units in the center.
Samsung Medical Center in southern Seoul will build two containers to be used to diagnose and treat flu patients in front of its emergency room by the end of this month.
A total of 2,925 confirmed cases of the new type of influenza have been reported in Korea, two of whom have died as of yesterday.
The first case involved a woman in her 50s who was found to have caught the disease during a trip to Mexico in May.
By Hwang Se-hee, Jung Hyun-mok [[email protected]]
with the Korea JoongAng Daily
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