Debate continues over cameras in operating rooms
Posted : 2021-07-01 09:20
Updated : 2021-07-01 09:48
This photo disclosed by the Gyeonggi Provincial Government on Oct. 2, 2019, shows surveillance camera footage of an operating room at the Gyeonggi Provincial Medical Center's Ansung Hospital. Courtesy of Gyeonggi Provincial Government
By Lee Hyo-jin
The continuing debate over the need to have surveillance cameras inside hospital operating rooms has resurfaced after a series of alleged medical malpractice cases during surgery made headlines recently.
In May, a hospital in Incheon west of Seoul, specializing in spinal surgery was found to have allegedly allowed administrative staff to perform surgical procedures such as incisions and sutures.