Childbirth Accident Emergency Relief Act Article 22

To prevent and reduce childbirth accident risks, medical care institutions and midwifery agencies shall develop in-house risk control and incident reporting mechanisms. They shall analyze the root causes of severe childbirth accidents and make proposals for improvements. They are required to report incidents and to be investigated as per the central competent authority’s request.The competent authority shall monitor the implementation of the improvement proposals within one year after an incident is reported.The reporting and investigation regulations mentioned in the previous two paragraphs shall be established by the central competent authority.The content of analysis for the root causes of severe childbirth accidents shall not be used as evidence in judicial cases.