MERS lock down in South Korean hospitals frustrates families

in Seoul on June 9 for a back problem and has been stuck there

ever since - locked-in along with 78 others as South Korea

scrambles to control an outbreak of the deadly Middle East

Respiratory Syndrome (MERS).

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Hwang Jeong-rye went to hospital in Seoul on June 9 for a back problem and has been stuck there ever since, locked in along with 78 others as South Korea scrambles to control an outbreak of MERS.