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government has decided to support medical expenses for medical personnel in their 40s who showed symptoms of paralysis in limbs after receiving the AstraZeneca vaccine. Regardless of the results of the investigation, whether it is because of the vaccine or not, we will provide first aid.



For more information, this is Park Soo-jin.



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Officials from the Ministry of Health and Welfare, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and local governments visited a family of nursing assistants in their 40s.



After vaccination, it was four days after it was known that he was hospitalized for quadriplegia and was diagnosed with encephalomyelitis.



[Family of medical personnel with quadriplegia symptoms: We met at the hospital and talked. Since you have heard in-depth about the complementary points, something will be done. Let's watch.] The



government has been in the position that it can only compensate for the causality of vaccines and adverse reactions.



However, after President Moon Jae-in's order to review support yesterday (21st), regardless of whether it is causal or not, the existing emergency welfare system has been used to pay medical expenses and living expenses.



[Baegyeongtaek / immunization response Promotion Team status General Lieutenant: need emergency welfare or catastrophic medical expenses such as welfare and linked to will go to measures to avoid compensating the blind spot -



emergency welfare subsistence to a crisis event which is It is a system that provides emergency medical expenses and living expenses to low-income families in need. The living expenses for a household of 4 are 1.26 million won, and medical expenses can be up to 3 million won at a time.



The government explains that it is possible to apply disaster medical expenses to support out-of-pocket expenses in case of difficulties due to excessive medical expenses compared to income.



At the moment, this was applied only to cases of nursing assistants in their 40s, but the government is in consultation with relevant ministries and local governments so that other similar seriously reported cases can also be supported.



Meanwhile, a government official in their twenties who suffered cerebral hemorrhage after vaccination on the 16th of last month is investigating the causality of the vaccine, but the KCDC reports that it is not a controversial rare thrombosis.



(Video coverage: Kim Hak-mo·Kim Min-cheol, Video editing: Kim Jong-mi, CG: Jung Hyun-jung)