”We waited in front of the hospital for two hours before delivering the baby” - the words of an ambulance worker who took off his vest (South Korea)

"After waiting two hours in front of the hospital's emergency room, we paramedics delivered the child. It's a source of pride, not shame."
A 119 ambulance worker who removed his vest bearing the name of the National Public Service Workers Union held a press conference in the Diet.
On the 16th, a foreign pregnant woman collapsed at Incheon International Airport and gave birth in an ambulance after searching for an obstetrician-gynecologist who could accept her for over two hours.
) All 12 hospitals in the area refused to accept pregnant women, citing reasons such as "we cannot accept obstetric patients" and "obstetric care is difficult."
Kim Seon Hyeong, head of the emergency services bureau of the National Public Servant Union Seoul Fire Department, said at the National Assembly on the 17th
At a press conference, he introduced himself as "currently an ambulance worker" and said, "We have now borrowed the name of a labor union. We have been working on the miscommunication since the 'emergency room transfer problem' occurred last year.
"In order to prevent this, we were instructed to wear union vests at all times," he said. "But I think there is a possibility that distortions may occur. We want to make sure that citizens are aware of the
"We are 119 emergency personnel who rush to the scene when a call is made. So I'm taking off this vest now and standing here as an emergency personnel," he added.
Kim and other 119 emergency personnel have been through a medical-political conflict for over a year and are worried that they will be able to get better.
"Although the problem of patients being passed around due to the overloading of emergency rooms continues, no fundamental solution has been put in place," Kim said.
"As a result, medical institutions continue to refuse to accept emergency patients, and 119 ambulances, who should be transporting emergency patients to hospitals quickly, continue to have to move from hospital to hospital in search of an institution to accept them."
"In February of this year, a patient in Daegu with a laceration on his forehead was unable to find a hospital to treat him, and he died because he missed the time to receive treatment. In March, a man who was returning home after a meal died.
"There are only a few cases where a person falls and injures their head, but there is no hospital to take them to, so they go home and their condition worsens," he said. "Currently, 119 ambulances in urban areas are not able to respond to such cases.
"We are even seeing cases where the responsibility for delayed treatment of emergency patients is being shifted to emergency teams," Kim said. "Emergency staff are exhausted and are overwhelmed by patients.
"The repeated failure to transport patients to appropriate hospitals makes me feel great guilt and stress, and the physical and mental scars just keep growing," he said.
However, the government said that this situation is not just due to the resignation of medical residents, and that it will strengthen evaluations of hospitals' emergency medical capabilities and
He urged the government to improve the emergency medical system, including by reflecting the patient acceptance rate of emergency medical teams.