Daegu City promotes a project to support attorney fees for medical staff when a criminal case occurs while transporting an emergency patient

After receiving an emergency patient and an accident, medical staff and attorney fees are supported from the police stage.

(Daegu = Yonhap News) Reporter Kang-il Lee = Daegu City announced on the 29th that it will promote the 'Daegu Responsible Emergency Medical Legal Support Project' for the first time in the country to ensure that severe emergency patients can receive prompt treatment.

This project provides support for the necessary attorney fees from the police investigation stage before indictment to medical staff in the emergency medical department and back-up medical departments working at six regional and regional emergency medical center hospitals in the event that a criminal case occurs during the ex officio transfer and accommodation of an emergency patient.

The 'Daegu Responsible Emergency Medical Legal Support Group', comprised of medical lawyers, provides assistance services such as case consultation, complaint analysis, response strategy advice, and accompanying police stations.

However, in cases where gross negligence by medical staff is evident, it is excluded from support, and if there is support from the central government or the medical institution itself, no duplicate support is provided.

An official from Daegu City said, "This project is a safety measure that relieves the legal burden that medical staff may experience in the process of prioritizing seriously emergency patients," and added, "We will relieve the burden on emergency medical sites so that citizens can receive emergency medical services in a timely manner."