The Health and Welfare Ministry plans to draw up rules regarding how medical institutions handle unexpected patient deaths or injuries in an effort to curb increasing incidences of medical malpractice, ministry sources said.
Under the plan, to be completed around August, the ministry will study whether medical institutions such as hospitals and clinics would either have to file a report to police, consult with police or do nothing about suspected malpractice incidents, the sources said Monday.
In implementing the proposed plan, the sources said, the ministry would take into account whether there was a causal relationship between doctors' treatment of a patient and the unexpected death or injury in each case.