Administrative data presented to the Jeonnam-Gwangju Integrated Special City Council show that only 10.9% of residents in the Haenam medical region used obstetric care within 60 minutes in 2024. The rate was 87.7% in Gwangju’s Gwangsan and Seo districts and 87.1% in its southeastern and northern districts, creating a gap of more than eightfold.
Haenam’s access rate was also just 7.2% for delivery services and 18.3% for emergency care, while its pediatric access rate stood at 55.7%. The region’s figures reflect wider resource disparities, with 170.6 doctors and 614.1 nurses per 100,000 people in Jeonnam, compared with 273.1 doctors and 882.2 nurses in Gwangju.