Myong Ji Hospital MERS Preparedness and Response Project (The emergence of emerging infectious disease response system)

摘要

According to World Health Organization (WHO) reports, MERS patient of the last five years mostly occurred in Saudi Arabia, but uniquely, over 180 patients appeared in Korea in 2015. The reason is in the nature of the Korean medical, characterized by high medical accessibility. MERS has rapidly expanded to infect large numbers of people in Korea in a short period of time through nosocomial infection . Under the circumstances, Myong Ji Hospital had accepted MERS patients and did not cause any nosocomial infection because the hospital had prepared, trained and formed a response team for emerging infectious diseases, a year before MERS occurred in Korea. However, Myong Ji Hospital has under-estimated the communication problem; inadequate communication during the MERS period caused a lot of confusion among people. Myong Ji Hospital learned two important lessons in responding to emerging infectious diseases; the first was to prepare a form of workforce, facility, manual and drills; the second was to prepare proper communication methods.