Next to <Anchor> , we will tell you the news of the Supreme Court decision today (29th). In 2009, 15 nurses working in the same hospital had babies at about the same time, five of them miscarried and four had babies with congenital heart disease. Nurses were asked to admit that the baby had a disease because they were exposed to harmful drugs in the early stages of pregnancy, but they were denied and filed a lawsuit. Today the Supreme Court raised the hands of the nurses 10 years after the babies were born.

First, reporter Lee Hyun-young reports.

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In 2010, the Supreme Court ruled that four nurses in Jeju Medical Center who gave birth to babies with heart disease were to recognize occupational accidents and pay industrial accident insurance.

The court first pointed out that nurses at the time had high labor intensity due to irregular shifts and were exposed to drugs prohibited by pregnant women.

"A fetus that could not exist without the mother's body could be exposed to accidents and dangers at any time because it is at this work site," he said.

In the meantime, she judged pregnant women workers that the damage to the unborn child's health due to work would be included in the work accident.

The fetus is a separate personality from the mother, even if a congenital disease occurs, so it overturns the judgment of the second-trial judge that it cannot be regarded as a worker's work accident.

This is the judiciary's final decision 10 years after the birth of babies with heart disease.

[Mr. Huh Moo / Former Nurse of Jeju Medical Center: When I did that in the second trial, I was very desperate. But the end heirloom is something I want to finish because I think all gonna last 10 years may also sheds Thank tears, and the appreciation requires more grown up.]

The Supreme Court is pregnant working women and fetuses should be adequately protected from occupational hazards and country this He emphasized that he has a responsibility for Korea.

(Video coverage: Yang Doo-won, video editing: Hwan-hee Hwan) 

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