[ad_1] Inside a nursing home in Gangnam-gu, Seoul. Material photo In order to protect the human rights of elderly patients admitted to nursing hospitals, the Korea National Human Rights Commission (HRC) recommended the establishment of provisions on the basis of human rights education in medical legislation, and include human rights education for workers in the certification standards for nursing hospitals. The Human Rights Commission said on the 10th that "most medical institutions are elderly patients, and nursing hospitals that provide long-term treatment and nursing care must provide human rights education to protect human rights first. of the vulnerable elderly ". In 2016, the Human Rights Commission recommended the identification of human rights violations of the elderly in nursing hospitals and the establishment of a prevention and care system, and announced that it would accept the Ministry of Health and Welfare. However, according to the results of the 'Elderly Human Rights Monitoring' in 2018, △ Excessive use of body restraints for the elderly △ Inadequate control of pressure ulcers △ Insufficient guarantee of self-determination when entering and leaving the elderly △ Violation of the right namely from patients and their guardians He noted that the infringement and the like were still there. The Human Rights Commission said: "In nursing hospitals, elderly patients account for about 80% of all patients, and most of them are long-term hospitalizations for more than 6 months." "Since the nursing hospital workers do not treat the elderly separately from the elderly, they are not sensitive to human rights issues that may arise, so they must take special care." Furthermore, “the caregivers who directly affect the elderly in nursing hospitals are human resources that are not included in the formal nursing system or in the long-term care system, and there is not even a legal basis for nursing systems. vocational training, much less human rights education, ”he said. “We devised various educational methods and we had 40,000 people. It is necessary to make the human rights of the elderly known to caregivers up to and including ”. Hospital nursing care workers and experts point out that fundamental changes are needed not only in human rights education, but also in the structure of the workforce in nursing hospitals. Kim Gyeong-mi, a strategic organizing member of the National Health and Medical Industry Union, said: "The hospital is not responsible for most of the health workers who work in nursing hospitals in the form of special employment." "Human rights education will only be effective when the hospital is converted into a type of employment that can be managed and supervised. I said. Yang Nan-ju, a professor at the Department of Social Welfare at Daegu University, said:" The hospital nursing facility, whose original purpose is rehabilitation after surgery, has become a long-term inpatient facility for the elderly. "There are difficulties in quarantine appropriate to Corona 19's situation." By Kim Yoon-joo, reporter from staff kyj@hani.co.kr [ad_2]
