SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Hospitals will be required to install surveillance cameras in operating rooms and record surgery procedures at the request of patients starting next week, the health ministry said Friday. The revised Medical Service Act, set to take effect Monday, also calls for storing recorded videos for at least 30 days, [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Doctors and patients are locked in a fierce debate over the issue of installing closed-circuit television cameras (CCTV) in operating rooms. A petition on the Blue House website posted by the family of the late Kwon Dae-hee, a patient who died during surgery due to blood loss, has requested the [...]
SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Controversy is heating up over the pros and cons of installing closed-circuit television (CCTV) in operating rooms as a bill requiring the installation of CCTV cameras in operating rooms was scrapped a day after it was proposed. The medical community is at odds with the position of patient advocacy [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Several photos showing nurses having a birthday party at a plastic surgery clinic while a patient was on the operating table have hit Korean Internet communities, and raised questions about the morality of Korean medical clinics. On December 28, the photos were revealed when a nurse from a plastic [...]