National Responsibility for the Side Effects of Vaccines

Extend causality recognition., Increase the number of objections to two

Compensation is provided for sudden deaths within 30 days of vaccination

Ahn Cheol Soo, the chairman of the presidential transition committee/the special chairman of the COVID-19 emergency response committee said they would provide wide support for adverse reactions to the COVID-19 vaccine while significantly easing the burden of public proof.

 

On the 7th, Chairman Ahn held the 6th meeting of the COVID-19 Special Committee at the Transition Committee in Samcheong-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul, and discussed ways to realize a national responsibility system for adverse vaccine reactions and secure treatments.

 

Chairman Ahn said, "We have emphasized the importance of scientific quarantine and focused on policy implementation measures based on objective data such as the national antibody positive rate and vaccine abnormalities." "From next week, we plan to release related data one by one with the KDCA and the NHIS," he said.

 

The COVID-19 Emergency Response Special Committee asked the government to come up with measures to compensate for damage from adverse reactions to vaccines, expand diseases subject to support, and ease the burden of public proof to provide quick and fair damage compensation.

 

The KDCA promised to strengthen support by reflecting this request.

 

Specifically, abnormal reactions registered by pharmaceutical departments in major overseas countries will be recognized as related diseases first, and the scope of causal recognition will be expanded if the COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Committee comprehensively analyzes the causalities of related diseases.

 

A project to be supported will also be established, and if the disease is suspected after vaccination and is treated or tested, actual expenses will be provided for the cost.

 

In order to ease the public's burden of submitting evidentiary documents, rapid compensation procedures will also be implemented, such as simplifying submission centered on necessary evidentiary documents in the case of related diseases.

 

The number of objections will also be expanded from one to two.

 

The transition committee said, "We decided to provide consolation money for sudden deaths within 30 days of vaccination, where the cause of death is unknown even as a result of the autopsy." In addition, he said, "There was no support if not diagnosed as a disease subject to vaccine abnormal response compensation and support, but in the future, if the disease is suspected and treated or tested, we plan to provide actual support for the cost."