Comprehensive Compensation Urged For COVID-19 Vaccine Injuries In Korea

Rising Calls For Prompt Government Action

Calls to more aggressively, comprehensively and quickly provide compensation for injuries thought to be linked to COVID-19 vaccinations have been made in South Korea, as possible adverse effect cases increase along with the national vaccination program.

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South Korean health authorities should come up with a system that can more aggressively and comprehensively protect people thought to be suffering adverse effects from COVID-19 vaccinations, rather than maintaining an approach of compensating only those that have clear proven causality, the Korean Medical Association (KMA) has urged.

The current slow and difficult compensation process in the country has come into the spotlight after the husband of a...

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