National Human Rights Commission of Korea Annual Report 2019 Also, the room in which the petitioner was locked had no toilet partition and had a CCTV. The Commission concluded that this does more than monitor the safety of those arrested, and infringes upon both their right to personality, and privacy and freedom. B. The Military Failure to notify parents that their son was hospitalized during recruit training a week for pneumonia treatment, but the petitionee did not inform the family of the victim’s Part 2 Soon after joining the military, the victim (a new recruit) was transferred to a hospital for hospitalization. On February 26, the Commission recommended that the unit commander educate The Commission found that, as a recruit who just joined basic training, the victim was not physically or mentally adapted to the new environment, and that respiratory diseases such as pneumonia can worsen into conjunctivitis or asthma, and in some serious cases, into severe pneumonia and even death. It concluded that the petitionee, who was in charge of the victim, did not fully take him or his family into account when the victim was discharged from the hospital and returned to basic training, and used his own judgment to decide that the victim was not in an emergency situation, and thus did not contact or inform the victim’s family. The relevant command accepted the Commission’s recommendations on human rights education. Human rights infringement caused by Navy captain’s failure to allow medical treatment On February 26, the Commission recommended a Fleet Commander to issue a warning to the petitionee and train its staff on human rights, so that sailors’ right to access medical treatment is not violated in the future. An investigation found that, immediately after the ship set sail, the victim complained of back pain and was admitted to the infirmary for the entire time at sea. However, he was only offered painkillers during that time. No report was made on a need to evacuate the patient to a higher echelon unit, nor any evacuation measures taken for the patient. 81 Key Activities the petitionee to prevent similar cases from happening in the future.