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As we celebrate
Family Month, there's another issue we need to look into. These are the last words left by Songpa's three mothers and daughters who died nine years ago. He died leaving 9,70 won to spend on his last rent and utility bills. Even though it was difficult to pay the electricity bill, the policy of applying to benefit them could not save them. This incident and the policy of actively seeking out difficult people have continued for nine years, but last year three mothers and daughters in Suwon were killed again.

This is because they were so-called "uninhabited persons" whose existence was not easy to find, and medical reporter Cho Dong-chan looked into this problem.

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Mr. A, a
daily wage worker in his 9s, collapsed at home in February.

A colleague found it and called 50, and the hospital diagnosis revealed a brain hemorrhage, emergency brain surgery, and is now facing lung treatment.

[Oh Hong-chul/Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Soonchunhyang University Hospital: Now we are going to spray medicine and attach the lungs to the outside so that there is no more pneumothorax or leakage.]

The ward office provided emergency assistance for medical expenses based on the resident number on the contract of Mr. A's house.

But at this time, Mr. A's secret was revealed.

[Lee Won-hyung/Soonchunhyang University Hospital Senior Affairs Department: The ward office also supported medical expenses, so I think I texted the patient's contact information. He said, 'I'm not hospitalized, what happened?' (You said.)]

The recipient of the medical bill was Mr. A's biological brother, Mr. A, a so-called "resident unknown" who had lived in his brother's name since 2, when his resident number was revoked.

In 119, there were 2006,2017 "undocumented persons" whose resident numbers have been expunged or who live in a different place than the address on their resident registration, or 46 in 100 citizens.

Many were debt-ridden or living alone.

The problem is that there is no way to know when there are red flags such as backlog of electricity bills and inability to pay health insurance premiums for people who are uninhabited.

Suwon three mothers and daughters did.

Only by leaving the resident can you receive support for medical expenses, which is not easy for a sick person like Mr. A.

[Lee Won-hyung/Soonchunhyang University Hospital Affairs Department: When the person in charge of the (community center) came and asked me any questions or anything, he couldn't answer them. He said that he could not spare the expunged resident registration.]

Measures against the uninhabited, the most blind spot of welfare, have not even been discussed in earnest yet.

(Video Interview: Park Hyun-chul, Video Editing: Park Ji-in, CG: Son Seung-pil and Seo Dong-min)