Hansen's disease compensation system for patient families Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare “Efforts to Agree Early” September 28, 16:53
Recognizing that a class action lawsuit admitted to discriminatory damage to the family of leprosy patients, the Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare Kato aims to enact a bill that includes a bailout plan in the extraordinary parliament. He expressed his urgency to reach agreement with the plaintiffs toward the creation of a new compensation system.
Following the decision of the class action that recognized the discrimination damage to the family of leprosy patients, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has been conducting informal consultations with the plaintiffs to establish a new compensation system.
Under these circumstances, the Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare, Kato, delivered a greeting at the ceremony of a national sanatorium in Higashimurayama, Tokyo, where a former patient with leprosy lives. I gave you great pain and hardship.
After this, Minister Kato told reporters that the discussion with the plaintiffs was "unfortunately not in a timely manner. I would like to make an effort to reach an agreement quickly." He expressed his urgency to reach an agreement with the plaintiffs to establish a new compensation system based on the aim of enacting a bill that includes remedies at the extraordinary Diet session.