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Gradual adjustment of at-home treatment of COVID-19
단계적 재택치료 조정 추진방안
 
PRESS RELEASE
MAY 31, 2022
 
The Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters discussed Plans for Gradual Adjustment of At-home Treatment.
 
At-home treatment system will be maintained until isolation requirement is removed. Some revisions will be made to the classification of intensive management group and general management group. The 24-hour response and guidance will be maintained, while face-to-face medical consultation and care will be expanded.
 
In general, care for at-home treatment patients in the intensive management group (60 years old or older, immunocompromised) will center around face-to-face medical consultation and care. Telephone health monitoring of intensive management group patients by healthcare institutions will be conducted once a day (compared to current twice a day).
 
With the face-to-face medical care stabilized, management of the general management group will be adjusted to the level of “temporary non-face-to-face treatment service”
 
Considering that there are enough healtlhcare institutions (around 4,100 in total), that can provide face-to-face medical consultation to children, up to 1 telephone consultation and preion (compared to current twice a day) will be covered by National Health Insurance for 11-year-olds or younger.
 
The recommendation for doctors to give two phone consultations to patients who are children or age 60 and over in their isolation period will be removed.
 
In addition to the above adjustment to the home treatment, the government is planning to continuously expand outpatient treatment centers so that COVID patients can receive face-to-face treatment rather than non-face-to-face treatment.
 
Also, the government is planning to give outpatient treatment center information by text messages, giving out home treatment guidelines, and card news so that the public can easily access the information that is currently being provided through Health Insurance Review and Assessment service (HIRA) website, private portal map services (such as Naver, Kakao, Tmap, etc).
  
The current 24-hour response and guidance system will be maintained. However, the number of personnel and facilities may be adjusted with the decrease in the number of confirmed cases and needs for hospital beds as long as a 24-hour response system within the metropolitan government remains.
  
This at-home treatment adjustment plan will be notified to local governments and the medical community and will be addressed from June 6.
   
// For inquiries contact Media Relations, Ministry of Health and Welfare
044-202-2047 or fairytale@korea.kr
 
 
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