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Long ER waits aggravate spread of virus in Seoul
Published Thu, Jun 11, 2015 · 09:50 PM
Seoul
THE man who became South Korea's Middle East respiratory syndrome (Mers) patient number 14 waited two-and-a-half days in the emergency ward for a bed to open at a prestigious Seoul hospital - not an unusually long time for the city's top medical centres.
By the time the 35-year-old was suspected of being infected with Mers, nearly 900 hospital staff, visitors and patients had been through the emergency ward.
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