The administrator of a hospital, clinic, or birthing center (hereinafter referred to as "hospital, etc." in this Chapter), when a medical accident (meaning a death or stillbirth caused or suspected to be caused by medical care provided by medical care professionals working in the relevant hospital, etc. and determined by an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as a death or stillbirth which the relevant administrator did not expect; the same applies hereinafter in this Chapter) has occurred, the administrator must immediately report the date, time, place and circumstances of the relevant medical accident and other particulars specified by an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare to the medical accident investigation and support center set forth in Article 6-15, paragraph (1), pursuant to an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
Prior to the submission of a report pursuant to the provision of the preceding paragraph, the administrator of the hospital, etc. must explain to the bereaved family of the deceased pertaining to the medical accident or the parents of the stillborn baby pertaining to the medical accident and other persons specified by an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (hereinafter simply referred to as "bereaved family" in this Chapter) about the particulars specified by an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare; provided, however, that this does not apply when there is no bereaved family or the whereabouts of the bereaved family are unknown.
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