Eight places, including Yonsei Severance, were selected for the first round of restructuring of high-level general hospitals.

Eight places, including Yonsei University's Severance Hospital, were first selected for the project to support the restructuring of high-level general hospitals, which focuses on severe and emergency patients and pays additional fees.

Along with Yonsei Severance, Kyung Hee University Hospital, Anam, Ansan, and Guro hospitals of Korea University, Chonbuk National University Hospital, and Chung-Ang University Hospital were also selected.

The government-promoted restructuring of high-level general hospitals is a project in which participating hospitals are subject to increased fees by focusing on treatment of severe, emergency, and rare diseases, and receive additional incentives by reducing treatment of mild patients.

Park Min-soo, the second vice minister of Health and Welfare, presided over a meeting of the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters for Doctors' Collective Action at the Seoul Government Complex today (24th) and announced this.

Vice Minister Park explained that the medical capabilities secured by the reduction of mild patients will be able to be used to respond to emergency patients, which will also help solve the problem of not using the emergency room.