AGI – Children’s beds remain so empty in South Korea that children’s hospitals z. B. close Run away from the pediatricians elsewhere a situation endangering the health of children. This is the warning from doctors of the Asian country notoriously lagging in the world in the birth rate, which has fallen further to 0.78 in 2022.
“The shortage of pediatricians in South Korea means that hospitals are unable to fill jobs increases the health risks for children“, the doctors explained in the local media, stressing that the lack of skilled workers is due to low birth rates on the one hand and increasingly leading to empty cradles on the other.
According to the British newspaper The Guardian, there are children’s clinics and hospitals in the capital, Seoul. down 12.5% In the last five years, the number of buildings open to the public in the most populous city on the entire peninsula (with a population of over 10 million) has grown to just 456 units.
In the same period the number of psychiatric hospitals rose 76.8%, while anesthesiology centers saw a 41.2% increase, reports the Seoul Institute, a think tank that works with public administration and quoted by The Guardian. As early as 2006, a shocking Oxford study announced that without significant improvements in demographic growth rates, South Korea’s population would become the world’s first to steer towards total extinction. (AGI)Sub/Fri 061238 JULY 23 NNNN