SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Assembly passed a bill requiring medical institutions to report the births of newborns to local governments Friday, after two unregistered babies were found dead in a refrigerator last week. The revision to the Act on Registration of Family Relations came amid public outrage over shocking revelations that [...]
SEOUL, March 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The portion of male births of the total newborns in South Korea declined to a record low last year, data showed Monday, in the latest sign that traditional preference for male children has waned. The ratio of baby boys to every 100 newborn girls came to 104.9 last year, [...]
SEJONG, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of newborns in South Korea fell again in June, government data showed Wednesday, in the latest sign of the chronically-low birthrate that has plagued Asia’s fourth-largest economy for more than a decade. About 26,400 babies were born in June, down 8.7 percent from 28,900 tallied a year [...]
SEJONG, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of newborns in South Korea fell again in June, government data showed Wednesday, in the latest sign of the chronically-low birthrate that has plagued Asia’s fourth-largest economy for more than a decade. About 26,400 babies were born in June, down 8.7 percent from 28,900 tallied a year [...]
Seoul, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — New details have emerged regarding the deaths of four premature infants at Ewha Womans University Medical Center’s neonatal intensive care unit, which paints not only the medical staff involved but the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, the National Forensic Service, and other health authorities in a damning light. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The successive deaths of four newborns at a hospital’s intensive care unit last month were caused by blood poisoning from a bacterial infection, police said Friday. Blood tests on the infants showed that all of them were infected with Citrobacter freundii, which can cause fatal symptoms in immunocompromised patients, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Health authorities said early Tuesday that three of the four newborns who died successively in an intensive care unit last week may have been infected with an antibiotics-resistant virus. The Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDCP) revealed its interim result on the preliminary blood culture tests of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Forensic doctors were to conduct an autopsy Monday morning on the bodies of four newborn babies to determine what caused them to die successively in an 81-minute period over the weekend. The prematurely born babies were in incubators at the intensive care unit for newborns at Ewha Womans University [...]