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Amid continuing backlash from the medical community over the search and seizure at Ajou University Hospital's Pediatric Emergency Medical Center, pediatric emergency specialists nationwide held a press conference urging that searches and seizures in essential medical fields be restricted in principle. The specialists made a tearful appeal, stating that the death of a patient is also a profound agony for them.
Reporter Jo Seong-hyeon has the details.
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As seven specialist doctors at Ajou University Hospital's Pediatric Emergency Medical Center expressed their intent to resign in protest against the police's search and seizure and refusal to apologize, representatives from the Korean Society of Pediatric Emergency Medicine and the Association of National Pediatric Emergency Medical Centers held a press conference.
The gathering was held to urge fundamental solutions regarding the police's search and seizure of the medical site last September to investigate the death of an infant that occurred two months prior.
They called for countermeasures, stating that reckless searches and seizures in essential medical settings such as emergency rooms, where every second counts, disrupt medical treatment and harm not only the medical staff but also patients and their guardians.
At the same time, they demanded that searches and seizures in essential medical fields be restricted in principle, that expert opinions must be reflected, and that control mechanisms against indiscriminate warrant execution be established.
During the press conference, the president of the Korean Society of Pediatric Emergency Medicine choked up and struggled to continue speaking as emotions overwhelmed him.
[Ryu Jeong-min / President, Korean Society of Pediatric Emergency Medicine: For our medical staff, the death of a patient... is the greatest scar and agony of all.]
Pediatric emergency specialists attending the conference requested that the Ministry of Health and Welfare and the police release the draft of the investigation guidelines they are currently preparing by the end of November.
(Photo: Yonhap News) (Video by Kim Seung-tae | Video Editing by Shin Seeun)
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