Ruling Party and Government "Concurrent Introduction of Birth Notification System and Protected Childbirth System... TF Analyzes Results of Full Survey"

Analysis of Unregistered Birth Children Survey
Park Dae-chul "Will Make Every Effort to Establish the System"
Jo Gyu-hong "Actively Urges Legal Basis Preparation"

The People Power Party and the government reaffirmed their position on the 28th to jointly introduce the birth notification system and the protected childbirth system. The party and government will form a task force (TF) including private experts to conduct an in-depth analysis of the full survey on unregistered births currently being carried out by the Ministry of Health and Welfare.

Park Dae-chul, the chairman of the People Power Party's Policy Committee, announced this during a briefing after the party-government consultation on improving the child protection system.

Chairman Park said, "Above all, we agreed that the birth notification system at medical institutions and the protected childbirth system should be introduced concurrently, and the party and government reaffirmed this position."

Park Dae-chul, Chairman of the Policy Committee of the People Power Party, is speaking at the Civil-Government-Party Council on Child Protection System Improvement Measures held at the National Assembly on the 28th. Photo by Hyunmin Kim kimhyun81@

The birth notification system is a system that requires medical institutions to mandatorily notify local governments of births, and the protected childbirth system is a system where the state protects children anonymously born in hospitals by mothers.

Chairman Park said, "There was an opinion that the prompt introduction of the birth notification system is necessary," adding, "We will establish a mechanism to receive birth notifications through medical institutions and the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service."

The birth notification system will be discussed in the National Assembly's Legislation and Judiciary Committee on the same day. Chairman Park added, "We will make every effort to prepare so that the system can be established as soon as it passes in the National Assembly."

Regarding the protected childbirth system, Chairman Park said, "We will discuss it together," and added, "The related law is currently being discussed in the Health and Welfare Committee, and we ask the opposition party for active cooperation."

The party and government plan to form a TF with private experts to analyze the results of a full survey on children who exist only with temporary newborn numbers without birth registration. According to the regular audit of the Ministry of Health and Welfare by the Board of Audit and Inspection, the number of children who have not been registered at birth and exist only with temporary newborn numbers reaches 2,236. The Ministry of Health and Welfare is currently conducting a full survey.

The private experts attending the meeting included Jung Ik-jung, Director of the Child Rights Protection Agency, Hyun So-hye, Professor at Sungkyunkwan University Law School, and Kim Min-ae, Director of the Gyeonggi Regional Child Protection Agency.

From the government side, Minister of Health and Welfare Cho Kyu-hong was present. In his opening remarks, Minister Cho said, "We will promptly complete the full survey to confirm the whereabouts and safety of children who only have temporary newborn numbers," and added, "To fundamentally prevent occurrences, it is necessary to establish legal grounds such as the birth notification system and the protected childbirth system, so we ask for the party's active cooperation."

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