South Korea Media Report: hospitals have voluntarily shut down the facilities over MERS concerns

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6/15/15
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As of Monday afternoon, five additional cases were confirmed with two more deaths, bringing the total number of cases to 150 with 16 deaths. Of the new cases, a nurse was found to have been infected while performing CPR on a MERS-infected patient at Konyang University Hospital.
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SMG-SNU Boramae Hospital in the capital temporarily closed the facility for a half day and conducted disinfections measures.

It was found that the 137th confirmed patient, the emergency worker who transferred a number of MERS patients to the hospital, stayed in the emergency room for more than an hour earlier this month.

The hospital officials immediately isolated a dozen medical staff members who had come into contact with the emergency worker.

Public fears escalated after it was confirmed Sunday that the 137th patient continued to work as usual for nine days despite showing some symptoms.

Korea Cancer Center Hospital in northern Seoul also shut down after a Samsung Medical Center patient visited the facility.

Although the visitor was not a MERS-confirmed patient, KCCH temporarily closed as part of its preventive measures, the medical officials said, citing the large number of cancer patients with low immunity level.

The reopening date has not been decided, they said.

http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20150615001002

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War Konyang temporary partial hospital closure

Temporary partial closure Konyang hospital
2015-06-15 [Last Updated: 2015-06-15]	627
CHANG Young Jin	Homers central management task force

148 times self-nurses closely related power isolation contactor, thermal monitoring carried out for staff Power

Department of Health and Human Services' central Homers management task force "Immediate Response Team has confirmed Konyang 6.15 days working hospital nurse found the patient (148 times) contact the medical staff, and contact with the patient in the hospital, some hospital facilities in consultation with Konyang according to wooryeodoem hayeotdago said to date from about closing today afternoon. ER is closed until June 25, and in fact only the intensive care unit and the existing patient care without a new patient, etc. In the case of foreign patients a new medication without the need to care only for some follow-up visit the patient. Isolated close contact with the medical staff and the power of self, unexposed health professionals are responsible for the existing inpatient care. In addition, office workers, including physicians, cleaning, dining, etc. For outsourcing companies, such as staff workers one days supply (日 日) decided to fever surveillance monitoring.

http://www.mw.go.kr/front_new/al/sal...ONT_SEQ=323430

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[This is the Nurse in Konyang Hospital mentioned in post #2 above]

Patient No. 148 is a nurse at Konyang University Hospital in Daejeon who conducted CPR on Patient No. 36, who contracted the disease from Patient No. 16 in the same hospital room and died on June 3. The Daejeon hospital announced Monday that it was partially closing the building.

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