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Green Remodeling Project for Aging Health Facilities Renovation

Sandong-eup Health Center Relocated and Rebuilt as a 'Health Promotion Type'

Gumi City in Gyeongbuk Province is promoting the ‘Green Remodeling Project’ for aging facilities among health centers and clinics in eup and myeon areas, which serve as frontline medical facilities, and is relocating and rebuilding the ‘Health Promotion-type Health Center’ to provide customized medical support for residents of the Sandong area.

Seonsan Health Center, Gumi-si.

▲ Renovation through Green Remodeling of Aging Health Facilities

The ‘Public Building Green Remodeling Project’ is a program led by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport aimed at improving the energy efficiency of aging buildings by upgrading insulation and replacing equipment with high-efficiency systems to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Seonsan Health Center has been selected for the Public Building Green Remodeling Project for three consecutive years, securing 1.6 billion KRW in national and provincial funding. The green remodeling projects for Seonsan Health Center, Haepyeong-myeon Health Center, Daebang, and Yeonak Health Clinics have been completed, welcoming citizens in a more comfortable environment.

This year, four locations?Dogae and Jangcheon Health Centers, and Gasan and Songbaek Health Clinics?have been selected, and detailed design is underway with project commencement planned for the first half of the year.

Additionally, as part of the green remodeling project, some asbestos-containing ceiling materials are being removed, and efforts are being made to create health facilities that citizens can use like a community gathering place in line with the COVID-19 endemic phase.

To secure national funding for eight health centers and clinics requiring green remodeling, Kwon Jun-gyeong, director of Seonsan Health Center, visited the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, the supervising agency, and held meetings with officials to actively request support to ensure project selection.

▲ Sandong-eup Health Center Relocated and Rebuilt as a ‘Health Promotion-type Health Center’

Seonsan Health Center’s ‘Health Promotion-type Health Center Relocation and Reconstruction Project’ for Sandong-eup Health Center was selected in the Ministry of Health and Welfare’s ‘2023 Rural Medical Service Improvement Project’ competition, securing 1.1 billion KRW in national and provincial funding.

The Health Promotion-type Health Center will be relocated to the Sandong-eup Administrative Welfare Center, scheduled for construction in 2024, and plans to implement integrated projects including not only primary care but also various health promotion programs and health education. It is expected to greatly contribute to improving residents’ health levels by providing expanded health and medical services.

Kwon Jun-gyeong, director of Seonsan Health Center, stated, “We will do our best to discover national funding projects to guarantee the health rights of local residents and improve the quality of health and medical services through environmental improvements and infrastructure expansion of health and medical facilities.”