Warning Text and Images Indicating 'Drunk Driving Risk' to Be Displayed on Alcohol Bottles
Warning Labels on Alcoholic Beverages to Include Drunk Driving Risks
Remuneration Explicitly Included in Healthcare Personnel Survey
Emergency Medical Center’s Role Expanded to Patient Transfer Coordination
Mental Health Training Institutions to Be Evaluated and Regulated
Military Manpower Administration Granted Access to Medical Records for Oversight
Bullying Recognized as Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities
From now on, alcoholic beverage bottles will display warning phrases and images alerting not only to the health risks of drinking but also to the dangers of drunk driving.
On the 27th, the Ministry of Health and Welfare announced that the National Assembly plenary session approved the partial amendment to the National Health Promotion Act, which includes these provisions.
Under the current National Health Promotion Act, alcoholic beverage containers are only required to display warning phrases stating that excessive drinking is harmful to health and that drinking during pregnancy can harm the fetus.
With this amendment, alcoholic beverage bottles will now be required to display warning phrases or images indicating that drunk driving can endanger the lives of oneself and others. The amendment also clarifies the basis for using the National Health Promotion Fund for projects aimed at preventing alcohol-related harm.
In addition, the plenary session of the National Assembly approved partial amendments to the Act on Support for Healthcare Personnel.
The revised Act on Support for Healthcare Personnel specifies remuneration as an item in the triennial survey conducted on healthcare workers such as doctors. Although the current survey already includes items on "working conditions and treatment," which covers remuneration, this amendment explicitly includes it in the law. The amendment also requires heads of healthcare institutions to make efforts to deploy additional personnel, and allows the state and local governments to provide administrative and financial support for this. Furthermore, the Minister of Health and Welfare can reflect the status of additional personnel deployment in the evaluation of healthcare institutions.
Moreover, the amendment to the Emergency Medical Services Act expands the scope of duties of the Central Emergency Medical Center, the control tower for emergency medical services, to include coordination and support among all emergency medical institutions, collection and provision of related information, and tracking and management of emergency patient status. Although the Central Emergency Medical Center has been coordinating and supporting patient transfers among emergency medical institutions, there was previously no clear legal basis for patient transfer coordination and tracking management.
The Mental Health Promotion and Welfare Services for Mental Patients Act, also amended on the same day, newly establishes the basis for evaluating training institutions for mental health professionals and issuing corrective orders or revoking designations based on the evaluation results. Mental health professionals refer to nurses, social workers, clinical psychologists, occupational therapists, and others who have obtained qualifications after a certain period of training at institutions approved by the Ministry of Health and Welfare.
Additionally, under the amendment to the Medical Service Act, the Military Manpower Administration head can request medical institutions to submit the medical records of high-ranking public officials and their children, athletes, entertainers, and other individuals subject to separate management of military service records for post-management purposes.
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