Lee Jae-myung: "Install CCTV in public hospital operating rooms immediately and enact mandatory law"

[Asia Economy (Suwon) = Reporter Lee Young-gyu] Lee Jae-myung, Governor of Gyeonggi Province, urged the immediate installation of CCTV in operating rooms of public hospitals along with the prompt enactment of mandatory legislation.

On the 8th, through a post titled "Operating Room CCTV... Public Hospitals Should Implement Immediately and Mandatory Legislation Should Be Enacted Quickly," Governor Lee pointed out, "While patients lie on the operating table under anesthesia and defenseless, various problems such as proxy surgeries and sexual harassment are occurring," adding, "Although these incidents happen in non-public operating rooms by a very small number of unethical medical personnel, many citizens feel anxious as multiple people have died or been injured."

He further stated, "The vast majority of good medical professionals who faithfully adhere to laws, regulations, and the Hippocratic Oath have no reason to oppose operating room CCTV," and added, "I am confident that this is rather the way to restore trust in medical personnel that has been broken."

Governor Lee also explained, "Operating room CCTV is not for public viewing but for use when necessary to verify the patient," and "A considerable number of medical institutions are already recording for internal use, and many even advertise the fact that they have installed CCTV."

Therefore, Governor Lee urged, "Public medical institutions, which can do so without laws, should immediately install operating room CCTV," and "The National Assembly should also enact the mandatory operating room CCTV law immediately according to the will of the people, without hesitation."

Earlier, under Governor Lee Jae-myung's directive, Gyeonggi Province is currently conducting a project to install and support operating room CCTV in private medical institutions.

The province will select 12 private medical institutions at the hospital level to pilot the installation and operation of operating room CCTV by the end of this month and will fully support the installation cost of 30 million KRW per hospital with provincial funds.

The province plans to expand the CCTV installation project if the pilot project results analyzed this year are deemed effective.

In addition, following the installation of operating room CCTV at Anseong Hospital of Gyeonggi Medical Center in October 2018?the first in the nation?last year, the installation was expanded to five hospitals under the Gyeonggi Medical Center, including Suwon, Uijeongbu, Paju, Icheon, and Pocheon.

The response of residents to the installation of operating room CCTV is also positive. In last year's provincial public opinion survey, 93% of residents responded that "the installation and operation of operating room CCTV will help resolve medical accident disputes." Additionally, 91% answered that they "support the installation and operation of operating room CCTV at Gyeonggi Medical Center."

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