38 Commission's Major Activities E. Recommendation for institutional improvement to the child birth registration system to prevent child abuse On 2 November, the Commission recommended the Minister of Justice and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to amend the Act on the Registration, etc. of Family Relationships to obligate doctors and midwives involved in childbirth to notify national institutions of new births. In 2015, the Commission noted that some child abuse cases occurred in families where the parents did not report their newborn child. Thus, it recommended change to the relevant laws, so that while the obligation to submit a newborn report lies with the parents, the doctors and midwives involved also report it to a national institution. The Commission concluded that this mechanism would allow the state to track children whose birth report is missing and, in turn, prevent child abuse. F. Recommendations following inspection visits to police lockups As in 2016, the Commission made inspection visits to police lockups. Based on the findings, a list of recommendations was presented to the Chief of the National Police Agency on 23 November, including changing the relevant rules so that the state pay for the treatment of injuries or diseases of a detained person; providing routine training and education to guards so that they conduct physical examination in a consistent manner; compliance for use of police equipment; improving the hygienic conditions in restrooms; providing a better mechanism for issuing women hygiene products; stopping the routine collection of eyeglasses in the nighttime; providing written information to foreign detainees; providing dining tables and work tables made of safe materials; and establishing a plan to ensure that the freedom to communication is not excessively restricted. The Commission found that detainees have to pay for expenses incurred at an external hospital and that the state covers such expenses only if a detainee is economically incapable of doing so. It concluded that having detainees pay for their own medical expenses without consideration of the cause of injury or disease is not fair and reasonable. As to physical examinations, the National Police Agency did revise and implement the relevant regulations based on the Commission’s recommendations in 2016. In many cases,