Gemeinschaftsmedizin und Gesundheitserziehung

Abstrakt

Response to COVID-19 Outbreak in a Spine-Specialty Korean Medicine Training Hospital: A Short Report

Me-riong Kim, Young Suk Yoon, Hye Jin Seo, Alka Gupta and Ji Yun Shin

Objective The purpose of this paper is to report the potential challenges posed during the coronavirus pandemic in a Korean medicine hospital and reports its response strategy to prevent and lower the risk of spreading COVID-19.

Methods This paper reports the main features of the response to COVID-19 implemented at a Korean medicine hospital located in the Gangnam district of metropolitan Seoul, South Korea.

Results This paper provides information on how an integrative Korean medicine hospital handled the challenges it faced during the COVID-19 pandemic; including the mitigation of COVID-19 without reducing the number of treatments and admission, holding wide implications for other medical specialties of comparable circumstances in use of traditional medicine and manual medicine.

Conclusion In this report, challenges posed during the COVID-19 pandemic at a Korean medicine hospital in the Gangnam district of metropolitan Seoul, South Korea, are reported. The response strategy to prevent and lower the risk of spreading COVID-19 whilst maintaining steady provision of treatments and patient admissions is included. This report may be beneficial for other medical institutions as a reference in implementing mitigation procedures during COVID-19.