Myongji Hospital said Monday that its Covid-19 home care support center is receiving requests for help from localities as the nation is experiencing a rapid increase in mild and asymptomatic Covid-19 patients under the “living-with-covid” system.

Last Tuesday, the hospital in Goyang, a bed town just north of Seoul, opened a center to provide home treatment support for up to 2,000 mild or moderate Covid-19 patients a day. The support center is equipped with an advanced system for managing at-home treatment patients based on the management know-how, protocol, and big data.

The hospital intended to take care of patients in Goyang, but other cities in Gyeonggi Province have asked for similar services for their residents, hospital officials said.

The hospital signed an agreement with Gwangmyeong City Public Health Center and began to help people receiving home treatment in the city last Friday. Myongji also agreed with Guri City and plans to provide services from next week.

Under the accords, Myongji Hospital’s medical professionals will provide a non-face-to-face treatment system to prereview the selection of in-home caregivers, twice-daily regular health monitoring day, maintain a 24-hour management system, non-face-to-face video treatment, issuance of prescriptions, mental care health evaluation, and manage the mental health of high-risk groups, to the two cities.

Also, the hospital will decide the hospitalizing patients, allocating beds, requesting transfers, determining home treatment, and releasing them from quarantine.