□ The Settlement Support Center for North Korean Refugees (Hanawon)
signed a medical support agreement for health promotion of North
Korean defectors with the Korea Hana Foundation and Ajou University
Hospital at 16:00 on March 26, 2018.
□ The agreement
primarily addresses medical treatment and counseling; reducing medical
expenses and facilitating access to medical treatment; consolidating
public healthcare expenditures and rendering support in a lump sum;
and improving the health of North Korean defectors in local
communities.
□ Hanawon has signed medical support
agreements for North Korean defectors with 25 hospitals and medical
institutions through a cooperative system between the public and
private sectors.
It takes into consideration their needs for
medical care and promotes the health of North Korean defectors in many
ways, including the signing of medical support agreements between
private hospitals and private support organizations, establishing a
cooperative system with appropriate agencies and defraying medical
expenses, and managing counseling offices at four hospitals (National
Medical Center, Chungnam National University Hospital, Seoul Medical
Center, and Incheon Red Cross Hospital).
□ Hanawon will work for the improved health of North Korean
defectors by establishing more medical support agreements with public
and private medical institutions across the nation and will further
strive to address their medical problems.