On the afternoon of the 29th, a detainee at the Dongbu Detention Center in Songpa-gu, Seoul, directly writes down complaints such as overcrowding of confirmed cases and listens to the reporters. yunhap news
At the Eastern Detention Center in Seoul, where 2413 people were imprisoned, 761 people were diagnosed with Corona 19 by the afternoon of the 29th. With the number of confirmed cases increasing every time a thorough investigation is conducted, the Ministry of Justice and the Seoul Metropolitan Government are fighting over who is responsible for the delayed thorough investigation. The start of the workshop was the Ministry of Justice. On the morning of the 29th, the Ministry of Justice announced the need for a full investigation of inmates on the 14th through the’press explanatory material’ when the media reported that’the total investigation of detainees was late’ by the Dongbu Detention Center. “As the survey doesn’t seem to have much meaning at the moment, it would be better to decide it according to future trends,” he said, so it was difficult to carry out a full survey with its own budget. In the case of collective infection at the Eastern Detention Center, the first confirmed employee came out on the 28th of last month, and the first confirmed among prisoners on the 14th. The explanation data of the Ministry of Justice wanted to do a thorough investigation as soon as possible, but according to the opinions of the Seoul Metropolitan Government and Songpa-gu, the thorough investigation was not possible. In response, the Seoul Metropolitan Government said in a press reference that afternoon, “We express our regret for the attitude of the Ministry of Justice to unilaterally hand over responsibility to Seoul City and Songpa-gu.” The Seoul Metropolitan Government said, “Immediately after the inmates were confirmed on the 14th, officials from the Dongbu Detention Center, the Seoul Metropolitan Area Disease Response Center, and the Seoul Metropolitan Government and Songpa-gu discussed and agreed to investigate the’all employees’ and’prisoners with high possibility of contact’, and to discuss the full investigation schedule later.” Explained. Then, the Seoul Metropolitan Government explained, “At a meeting held under the presidency of the Metropolitan Area Disease Response Center on the 16th, all of the related organizations agreed that a’full investigation of staff and prisoners’ was necessary, and a full investigation was initiated.” The Seoul Metropolitan Government refuted, “It is a matter that the four institutions decide through consultation, and it is not a structure that Seoul and Songpa-gu can arbitrarily decide, as the Ministry of Justice argues.” The intention is that it is unfair to decide together and leave it to Seoul and Songpa-gu now. It has also been argued that the root cause is in the environment of acceptance by the Ministry of Justice. In an online briefing held earlier that day, Seoul City’s Citizen Health Bureau Director Park Yoo-mi said, “The detention center had poor ventilation in a typical 3 mil (close, dense, closed) form, and it was very overcrowded and it was difficult to separate and accommodate the confirmed patients.” Revealed. By Park Tae-woo, staff reporter [email protected]