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Even if you suffer from adverse reactions after receiving the vaccine, it is not easy to get recognition for its causality.

In April of last year, Nursing Assistant Mr. A was paralyzed in his limbs as a result of an adverse reaction after the vaccination.

At that time, President Moon Jae-in reviewed his causality and directly instructed him to subsidize the cost of treatment, but now 9 months have passed, would Mr. A have returned to his daily life?



We met with reporter Park Soo-jin.



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Nursing assistant A spends most of the day at home.



Going out is all about visiting the hospital for rehabilitation or taking your dog for a walk.



[Mr. A / Victim of an adverse reaction after vaccination: Going outside and meeting people was actually scary.

I kept withdrawing and didn't even tell my friends.]



The diagnosis I received after vaccination in April of last year was acute disseminated encephalomyelitis.



The symptoms of quadriplegia, which could not move the limbs at all, have improved, but the symptoms of numbness in the arms and legs that cannot sleep are still present.



[Mr. A / Victim of adverse reaction after vaccination: numbness and pain, that is 24 hours.

(Continued?) Yes.

I am still in pain right now.

It's like putting on hot paste, go on.

That angry and hot.]



However, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention did not acknowledge a causal relationship with vaccination.



[Jung Eun-kyung/Director of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (May 10, last year): This is a case where it is difficult to determine whether there is a clear causal relationship with the vaccine, so the evidence is insufficient.]



Instead, It was included, and three months later, it was recognized as an industrial accident.



Mr. A thought that he would be able to return to his normal life soon after receiving government support like this.



But, it wasn't.



The continuous pain even made me sick, and now I am receiving treatment for depression and panic disorder.



[Mr. A / Victim of adverse reaction after vaccination: That pain has become a daily routine.

I get depressed.

Why do I have to suffer like this?] It



was up to the individual to go to a hospital where he could receive treatment and to endure physical and mental damage.



Psychiatric treatment, such as depression, is not covered by government medical expenses.



[Mr. A / Victim of adverse reaction after vaccination: Actually, there is no hospital that accepts this.

I don't want to take responsibility.

(The first hospital I went to) ‘It’s okay if I take the medicine’, ‘I got a CT scan and come to see the results in a week,’ and that was all.] The



Corona Vaccine Victims and Family Council said that there are not many cases like Mr. We are asking you to designate a hospital that does it.



(Video editing: Ha Seong-won, VJ: Oh Se-gwan)