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.

The competent authority shall perform statistical analyses and publish the results annually for the childbirth accident relief cases processed. The aforesaid publication of the results shall include analyses of cases in accordance with levels of medical care institution, region, and sex.

For medical care institutions and midwifery agencies where childbirth accident disputes or childbirth accidents occur, the central competent authority may analyze the causes when necessary and order the institution/agency to conduct a review and make an improvement proposal.
Theinstitutions or organizationswith credibility may be commissioned to perform the analyses mentioned in the previous paragraph, and regard shall have had to the principles of anonymity, confidentiality, and mutual learning. Also, the analysesshall not aim at punishment or attribution of responsibility.