Recently, medical malpractice cases have occurred frequently during hospital operations, and illegal medical activities, such as ghost surgeries by unqualified persons, and sex crimes against anesthetized patients have been committed occasionally.

The operating room is strictly cut off from the outside, making it difficult for outsiders to comprehend surgical procedures and situations, and it is difficult for patients to perceive their surroundings due to anesthesia, etc., and they have limited ability to express themselves during the operation, which inevitably leads to information asymmetry between medical personnel and the patient. 

Under such a structure, it is difficult to fundamentally prevent the occurrence of illegal medical activities and sex crimes, and for the patients or their caregivers to find the causal relationship in a medical malpractice, making the patients vulnerable to a rights violation. 

Therefore, it is argued that video surveillance needs to be installed in operating rooms to remove information asymmetry.

The Amendment aims to impose the head of a medical institution that runs operating rooms an obligation to install image information processing devices, and make it mandatory to capture and preserve the scene of medical activities with an image information processing device, when requested by a patient or patient caregiver, to secure the right to know of the patient and patient caregiver and enable rapid and fair resolution of medical disputes (Article 26-2, Article 63 (1) and Article 87-2 (2) 3 newly inserted). 

Require the head of a medical institution that runs operating rooms to install image information processing devices, and make it mandatory to capture and preserve the scene of medical activities with an image information processing device when requested by a patient or patient caregiver (Article 26-2, Article 63 (1) and Article 87-2 (2) 3 newly inserted).