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What you are seeing now is a video estimated to have been taken 3 years ago in the operating room of a spinal hospital in Gwangju. The police are investigating the whistleblower that the man performing the operation is not a doctor but a nursing assistant. As the suspicion of such proxy surgery continued and the public anger grew, voices calling for the mandatory installation of CCTV in the operating room grew.



The key issues of this case were summarized by Kang Cheong-wan.



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The biggest issue in the operating room CCTV installation legislation is whether or not CCTV must be installed, and if so, where will it be installed?



Democrats pushing for compulsory operation put weight on the inside of the operating room.



[Yun Ho-jung / Democratic Party floor leader (last 14th): The operation room CCTV installation law, which 8 out of 10 people agree, must be resolved.]



On the other hand, the power of the people is that we should discuss it carefully because we are concerned about shrinking medical practice.



The government's compromise plan to install CCTV on the door outside the operating room came out without narrowing the opposition's position.



As the purpose is to prevent surrogacy surgery, the logic is that it is possible to check the occupants even if CCTV is installed only on the external door.



[Kang Ki-yoon / People's Strength Representative (Secretary of Health and Welfare Committee, last April 28): There is an opinion that about 70% of CCTVs are installed at the entrance of the operating room in the hallway outside, so it can be replaced with that... .]



There are other issues as well.



If you look at the three bills proposed to the National Assembly, it is divided into Let's make recording compulsory, it's not necessary.



There is also a bill that requires the consent of medical personnel as well as patients, but there is a strong objection to whether medical personnel would agree to it.



The ruling and opposition parties are scheduled to discuss the related bill again at the National Assembly Health and Welfare Subcommittee on the 23rd, but there is a forecast that it will be difficult to deal with in the extraordinary session of the National Assembly in June as the opposition and the opposition are divided amid strong opposition from the medical community.



In 2015, when the 19th National Assembly, the bill to obligate the installation of CCTV in operating rooms was first proposed to the National Assembly.



A similar bill was proposed in the 20th National Assembly after that, but it failed to cross the threshold of the National Assembly every time.



(Video coverage: Jeong Sang-bo, video editing: Ha Seong-won)