7 out of 10 doctors, the government was wrong with COVID-19

Questionnaire survey on the COVID-19 events through the KMA

84.1% of the respondents said that the government should have been in the early stages of restrictive entry into China

Seven out of ten doctors found that the government's response to the COVID-19 was wrong.

 

The Korean Medical Association (Chairman Dae-Zip Choi) conducted a questionnaire survey on the COVID-19 events through the doctoral survey on the 20th to 24th, and published the results on the 30th.

 

As a result of the survey, 39.1% (621 people) of the respondents answered that 'correct responses were not achieved at all' and 29.8% (473 people) answered that 'correspondence was somewhat insufficient' It was found that 68.9% of all respondents in the year were negatively evaluated.

 

On the other hand, 16.6% (264 people) said that 'it worked to some extent' and 6.1% (97 people) said that they responded very well.

 

In particular, the negative evaluation of doctors in the Daegu area, which suffered the most, was 83.2%, which is the only city in the country that has surpassed 80%.

 

Regarding the 'restriction on the total entry of people via China', 84.1% (1337 people) of respondents said that 'there was a need to restrict the entry of people via China at the beginning of the situation'.

 

Following this, 12.6% (200 people) said that 'there was no need to expand the limit of immigration via China' and 3.3% (52 people) said 'I don't know', and there were overwhelmingly negative opinions on the government response in the early stages of the situation.

 

As for the KMA's response to the COVID-19 incident, the percentage of respondents who answered 'comparably appropriately responded' and 'very appropriately responded' was 44.6% (706 people) and 17.9% (284 people), respectively, accounting for 62.5% (990) People) as appropriate.

 

On the other hand, 14.0% (221 people) had an opinion that 'the response was somewhat insufficient', and 7.6% (120 people) had an opinion that 'were wrong', and 21.6% answered negatively.

 

Spokesperson Park Jong-hyuk of the KMA said that the survey was conducted to confirm the members' thoughts in response to the government's response to the COVID-19 incident, based on the results of the survey, it is used as a reference for preparing practical measures.

 

Meanwhile, 1589 medical doctors nationwide participated in the survey, with Seoul accounting for the most with 33.9% (538 people), followed by Gyeonggi 17.4% (277 people), Daegu 8.3% (131 people), and Busan 8.2% (130 people).