Research Report
Blood and blood products are important resources of modern medicine in saving lives. These products are provided only by blood donation; hence we can not empathize enough about adequate provision and safe demand. However, many of the accidents surrounding blood management due to lack of appropriate supply system, along with post-accidental supervision and related provision have brought to people's mistrust on the blood management administration.
This report is aimed to rearrange the advanced and systemic blood safety law by understanding current problems; i) scheming of pre-accidental prevention and post-accidental supervision of blood safety accident, ii) construction of foothold for people's reassurance of blood donation and use of blood and blood products, and iii) provision of appropriate management and proceedings of damage to gain people's reliance of blood administration. Based on the above research purposes, this report is organized as follows Chapter 2 reviews history of safety provision and law concerning blood to which is essential to understand the current issue. Chapter 3 focuses on the review and analysis of the current blood safety act. The report is mainly based on blood management act, which is the fundamental law of Korean blood safety management, and the military blood management regulation with prevention of AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome). Finally, chapter 4 proposes legislative improvements after examining problems on current blood safety law based on the present condition analysis.