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    Medical Competitiveness of Daegu

General Status
Daegu has a top-level medical infrastructure that, consists of over 18,000 medical personnel and includes approximately 6,000 medical doctors in 6 university hospitals, 29 general hospitals and 30 oriental medical centers.
Daegu is highly competitive in the fields of specialized medical examination and treatment per hospital (within the top 10 in Korea). It is a city that conducts over 600 cardiac surgeries and 10,000 cancer operations in a year by university hospitals (Kyunpoook National Univ. Hospital, Yeungnam Univ. Medical Center, Keimyung Univ. Dongsan Medical Center and Daegu Catholic Univ. Hospital)
Low medical charge
Medical checkup (KRW 350,000 ~ 400,000 in Daegu, KRW 500,000 ~ 1,000,000 in Seoul), cosmetic surgey (cheaper by approximately KRW 1,000,000 ~ 2,000,000 than in Seoul)
Various surgical and examination costs are cheaper by a : approximately 1/9 of the US, 1/4 of Japan and 1/2 of Singapore
General Status
Specialized Fields
Classification
Field Medical Organization
Cardiac Congenital heart malformation surgery Kyungpook National Univ. Hospital
Pacemaker implantation Keimyung Univ. Dongsan Medical Center
Digestive Gastrectomy
Hepatic resection
Kyungpook National Univ. Hospital
Cholecystectomy Yeungnam Univ. Medical Center
Keimyung Univ. Dongsan Medical Center
ERCP surgery Yeungnam Univ. Medical Center
Daegu Catholic Univ. Medical Center
Herniotomy Daegu Fatima Hospital
Appendectomy Kwak's Hospital
Thyroid gland surgery Kyungpook National Univ. Hospital
Yeungnam Univ. Medical Center
Brain General brain surgery Kyungpook National Univ. Hospital
Brain tumor surgery Kyungpook National Univ. Hospital
Keimyung Univ. Dongsan Medical Center
Breast Breast conservative operation
Mastectomy
Yeungnam Univ. Medical Center
Nose Paranasal sinustis surgery Kyungpook National Univ. Hospital
Prostate Gland Prostatectomy Daegu Veterans Hospital
Eye Cataract surgery Cheil Eye Hospital
Knee Knee joint surgery Yeollin Keun Hospital
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