Suwon-si, Establishes Infectious Disease Prevention and Management Plan for This Year

The city of Suwon in Gyeonggi Province has established an infectious disease prevention and management plan for this year.

On the 8th, Suwon City announced that it has formulated an infectious disease prevention and management implementation plan with the vision of "Realizing Suwon as a healthy city safe from infectious diseases," based on the "3rd Basic Plan for Infectious Disease Prevention and Management (2023?2027)."

This year's implementation plan consists of 4 promotion strategies, 10 core tasks, and 45 detailed action tasks.

The four promotion strategies are ▲Enhancement of infectious disease crisis preparedness and response ▲Proactive and comprehensive infectious disease prevention and management ▲Strengthening quarantine and surveillance systems for infectious disease control ▲Fortification of infectious disease response infrastructure.

First, Suwon City will monitor and analyze domestic and international infectious disease outbreaks in real time, establish infectious disease crisis management measures and on-site action manuals to solidify the infectious disease crisis response system. Additionally, it will enhance response capabilities through training and education of dedicated infectious disease personnel and build a biological terrorism preparedness and response system by conducting "biological terrorism simulation drills" in cooperation with related agencies.

Suwon City Hall

Furthermore, ongoing infectious disease prevention and management (respiratory infectious diseases, waterborne and foodborne infectious diseases, vaccine-preventable infectious diseases), chronic infectious disease prevention and management (tuberculosis, AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections, Hansen's disease), and infectious disease prevention and management for vulnerable groups will also be promoted.

In particular, the quarantine system will be digitized, and the operation of devices such as "remote mosquito surveillance equipment" will strengthen the quarantine system and vector monitoring.

To promptly block the occurrence of infectious diseases in the local community, a sentinel surveillance system and 304 disease information monitoring networks will also be operated.

In addition, the city will build infectious disease response infrastructure by expanding public-private cooperation, strengthening community participation and communication, managing infectious disease control institutions, and expanding emergency treatment beds.

A Suwon City official stated, "As COVID-19 quarantine measures have been eased and international travel has increased, the incidence of legally designated infectious diseases and imported infectious diseases has surged significantly. We will not let down our guard in quarantine efforts and will actively establish strategies to proactively respond to public health crises threatening society as a whole, making Suwon a city safe from infectious diseases."