The Health Ministry plans to draw up three rules for medical institutions to follow in an effort to curb the rising number of medical malpractice cases, ministry sources said Sunday.
Under the plan, the ministry itself will decide whether medical institutions such as hospitals and clinics would have to file a report with police, consult with police or do nothing about the malpractice case in question, the sources said.
In each case, the ministry would take into account any causal relationship between the doctors' treatment and the unexpected patient deaths or injuries, and a course of action would be followed regardless of whether doctors actually made mistakes or not, the sources added.