Establishment of pediatric emergency and quasi-critical care system at Uijeongbu Strong Children's Hospital amid crisis of collapse of pediatric medical care
Mar 14, 2025
Uijeongbu Strong Children's Hospital (CEO Choi Yong-jae, Chairman of the Korea Association of Pediatric Youth) has completed the establishment of a medical system to treat pediatric emergency patients and quasi-serious patients in order to cope with the collapse of the pediatric medical system and is piloting it. It will be fully operational around mid-April.
Recently, the gap in pediatric medical care has been intensifying due to the continuous avoidance of support from pediatric adolescents and the absence of power due to the phenomenon of child and adolescent specialists. Uijeongbu Strong Children's Hospital, which serves as the waist of pediatric medical care, has invested a large amount of its own budget to introduce facilities and equipment to directly treat pediatric emergency patients and semi-serious patients.
Uijeongbu Strong Children's Hospital, which will operate a quasi-severe patient treatment system in earnest from the beginning of next month, introduced a high-flow oxygen therapy device in the hospital room and a state-of-the-art air purification facility with a total heat exchange method that can drastically reduce infections in the hospital.
In particular, in the event of an intensive care unit, a separate intensive care unit has been set up to take emergency measures quickly as a solution to the continuous situation of not being able to power up.
In addition, the plan is to establish a precision medicine center to be the last bastion of pediatric and adolescent health to enable last resolution for children suffering from chronic diseases such as obesity, hyperlipidemia, and type 2 diabetes as well as acute diseases.
Choi Yong-jae, head of Strong Children's Hospital in Uijeongbu, explained, `The collapse of the pediatric medical system has been going on for several years, but there is no possibility of rehabilitation at all, and we can no longer wait and see as a result, accelerating the urgent need for children and adolescent hospitals, so the hospital has been equipped with advanced emergency medical facilities, including high-flow oxygen therapy devices.'
Choi said "The High Flow Oxygen Therapy (HFOT) is a treatment equipment dedicated to semi-severe and severe respiratory diseases that effectively supports patients' breathing by stably supplying more oxygen than normal oxygen supply, and is expected to play an excellent role in relieving breathing difficulties caused by pneumonia, asthma, RSV infection, etc."
The director of the hospital Choi also established a facility to prevent infection and create a pleasant treatment environment as there are problems such as exposure to the risk of infection in the hospital due to the urgent need for measures to prevent childhood infections due to the rapid increase in the number of pediatric infectious diseases after COVID-19," he said.
"The heat exchanger is an effective system that is different from the air purifier that effectively blocks viruses and harmful substances for the safety of pediatric patients and reduces the risk of air infection in hospitals," Choi added.
Choi Yong-jae, director of the hospital, said, `As the collapse of pediatric medical care is expected to continue unless the government comes up with special measures due to the difficult medical environment to produce pediatric specialists, we should work together to normalize pediatric medical care along with the government's support for pediatric hospitals to meet the growing role of pediatric hospitals in pediatric medical care," he stressed.
Recently, the gap in pediatric medical care has been intensifying due to the continuous avoidance of support from pediatric adolescents and the absence of power due to the phenomenon of child and adolescent specialists. Uijeongbu Strong Children's Hospital, which serves as the waist of pediatric medical care, has invested a large amount of its own budget to introduce facilities and equipment to directly treat pediatric emergency patients and semi-serious patients.
Uijeongbu Strong Children's Hospital, which will operate a quasi-severe patient treatment system in earnest from the beginning of next month, introduced a high-flow oxygen therapy device in the hospital room and a state-of-the-art air purification facility with a total heat exchange method that can drastically reduce infections in the hospital.
In particular, in the event of an intensive care unit, a separate intensive care unit has been set up to take emergency measures quickly as a solution to the continuous situation of not being able to power up.
In addition, the plan is to establish a precision medicine center to be the last bastion of pediatric and adolescent health to enable last resolution for children suffering from chronic diseases such as obesity, hyperlipidemia, and type 2 diabetes as well as acute diseases.
Choi Yong-jae, head of Strong Children's Hospital in Uijeongbu, explained, `The collapse of the pediatric medical system has been going on for several years, but there is no possibility of rehabilitation at all, and we can no longer wait and see as a result, accelerating the urgent need for children and adolescent hospitals, so the hospital has been equipped with advanced emergency medical facilities, including high-flow oxygen therapy devices.'
Choi said "The High Flow Oxygen Therapy (HFOT) is a treatment equipment dedicated to semi-severe and severe respiratory diseases that effectively supports patients' breathing by stably supplying more oxygen than normal oxygen supply, and is expected to play an excellent role in relieving breathing difficulties caused by pneumonia, asthma, RSV infection, etc."
The director of the hospital Choi also established a facility to prevent infection and create a pleasant treatment environment as there are problems such as exposure to the risk of infection in the hospital due to the urgent need for measures to prevent childhood infections due to the rapid increase in the number of pediatric infectious diseases after COVID-19," he said.
"The heat exchanger is an effective system that is different from the air purifier that effectively blocks viruses and harmful substances for the safety of pediatric patients and reduces the risk of air infection in hospitals," Choi added.
Choi Yong-jae, director of the hospital, said, `As the collapse of pediatric medical care is expected to continue unless the government comes up with special measures due to the difficult medical environment to produce pediatric specialists, we should work together to normalize pediatric medical care along with the government's support for pediatric hospitals to meet the growing role of pediatric hospitals in pediatric medical care," he stressed.
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
