Capital City Treatment for Busan Citizens Riding on KTX
Patients in the Busan region who paid a visit to a hospital in Seoul, the national capital region, have rapidly increased. Growing by 22.4 percent during the three year period starting from 2003, it showed the largest increase in the country.
The Kyung Nam and Ulsan areas also showed increases of 21.2 percent and 19.4 percent, respectively. Since the opening of the express railway (KTX) in 2004, it has become very convenient for patients on the Kyung Bu railroad lines like Busan, Ulsan, Kyung Nam, Daegu and other regions, to use medical facilities in the largest metropolitan city in Korea.
According to analyzed results of the National Health Insurance Corporation presented by Representative Lee Han Gu of the Hannara political party on February 5, Busan residents who called on a hospital in the capital city for treatment came to 137,294 in 2005. That was an increase of 22.4 percent over 112,130 people in 2003, before KTX was in operation. The national average is 14.2 percent.
The number patients from the Kyung Nam region who received medical treatment in the capital city were 137,148 in 2005. That was 21.2 percent more than in 2003, taking third place after Busan and Daegu (22.0%). In Ulsan, some 40,500 patients chose metropolitan medical treatment in 2005 showing an increase of 19.4 percent since 2003.
The increase is particularly noticeable with cancer patients. In Kyung Nam, the number of patients receiving treatment in Seoul reached 7,739 in 2005, an increase of 35.3 percent over 2003. Busan had 6,325 patients, an increased of 28.9 percent compared to two years ago.
Representative Lee claimed, "Following the unbalanced development of industry, education and culture, now medical and health industries are chasing the same trend of irregular development. Special measures Hurb, a health business that is specialized well in comparison to other regional cities, should be prepared and developed."
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