
The People Power Party and the New Reform Party expressed strong regret over the resignation of medical staff following the search and seizure of the Pediatric Emergency Center at Ajou University Hospital.
When seven medical specialists announced their intention to resign after the Pediatric Emergency Center at Ajou University Hospital was raided by the police, the People Power Party and the New Reform Party criticized the police's investigative methods and called for an inspection and emphasized the protection of medical staff.
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The Gyeonggi Southern Police Agency searched and seized a pediatric emergency medical center on the 30th of last month in connection with the case of a patient who died while receiving treatment at Ajou University Hospital.
Conservative opposition parties, including the People Power Party, urged on the 28th, "To immediately begin an inspection of the entire search and seizure process," in relation to the fact that specialists at Ajou University Hospital's Pediatric Emergency Medical Center repeatedly expressed their intention to resign after the police search and seizure process.
People Power Party Policy Committee Chairman Lim Ja said on Facebook on this day, "Is the fact that the medical staff who sweated for over an hour and performed CPR to save the baby who was brought in with cardiac arrest the return was a search and seizure in the emergency room and the treatment of the baby as a suspect?"
Policy Committee Chairman Lim pointed out, "Are the police of the people who make the hands of the medical staff tremble as they try to save patients, and who create fear in medical clinics where critically ill children are being treated? What kind of doctor will protect the pediatric emergency room now? The damage to the pediatric emergency room caused by this will inevitably be passed on to the hundreds of thousands of children and parents in southern Gyeonggi Province."
Rep. Kim Eun-hye, chairman of the Gyeonggi Provincial Party Committee, held a meeting with the Gyeonggi Provincial Medical Association at the Gyeonggi Provincial Party conference room in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province on this day to discuss measures for the 'pediatric emergency specialist resignation situation'.
Rep. Kim said, "The investigative behavior that ignored the special nature of essential medical care not only threatened patients who were at the crossroads of life and death, but also forced doctors on the front line of emergency medical care to leave the scene. The responsible opposition party and the Gyeonggi Provincial Medical Association must cooperate to protect the people's health and the Korean medical system."
In the New Reform Party, Rep. Joo-young Lee, a former pediatric emergency center specialist, held a press conference at the National Assembly and raised her voice, saying, "The principle of presumption of innocence applies to child abuse and verbal abuse and assault against medical staff, but the principle of presumption of guilt applies only to medical staff who worked hard to save the patient."
He emphasized, "Ajou University Hospital is a hospital that has bravely protected pediatric patients not only in Suwon and nearby areas, but also across the country with the greatest passion and proactiveness. If even hard-working people are treated as potential criminals, who on earth can do that job?" He added, "If we do not restore the common sense premise that no medical staff intentionally kills patients, there will be no future for medical care in Korea."
Previously, the Gyeonggi Southern Police Agency conducted a search and seizure of the hospital's pediatric emergency medical center on the 30th of last month in connection with the case of a patient who died while receiving treatment at Ajou University Hospital. Accordingly, seven out of nine pediatric emergency medicine specialists affiliated with the center are said to have recently conveyed their intention to resign to the hospital.

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