After foreign patients leave Korea, aftercare goes untracked

What happened: A government-funded KHIDI program for foreign patients in South Korea provides preliminary consultations and aftercare but did not track how many patients stopped receiving follow-up care after returning home, or why, per data obtained by Rep. Why it matters: So said institutions could meet targets with preliminary consultations alone, and that verification relied solely on submitted documents with too few spot checks. KHIDI said it would consider improving its verification system, including through spot checks.

A government-funded KHIDI program for foreign patients in South Korea provides preliminary consultations and aftercare but did not track how many patients stopped receiving follow-up care after returning home, or why, per data obtained by Rep.

So said institutions could meet targets with preliminary consultations alone, and that verification relied solely on submitted documents with too few spot checks. KHIDI said it would consider improving its verification system, including through spot checks.