The government said it will restore the Ministry of Health and Welfare's "integrated management system for organs, tissues, and blood" on the 17th. The system sets nationwide transplant priorities by comprehensively considering the urgency of patients on the transplant waiting list, region, blood type, and age, and then matches donors and recipients. With the system paralyzed, criticism has mounted that medical settings directly tied to the public's lives are in disarray.
Kim Min-jae, Vice Minister of the Ministry of the Interior and Safety and first deputy chief of the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters, said this during a briefing on the fire at the National Information Resources Service (NIRS) held at the Government Complex Sejong on the 16th.
Kim, the Vice Minister, also said, "For systems closely tied to the public's life and safety but assigned a low grade, we will consider raising their grade going forward." The organ–tissue–blood system is currently classified as Grade 3 in importance among government systems.
He added, "Since the 13th, the Grade 1 system 'mobile ID verification service' has been restored," and said, "The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy's 'strategic goods management system' is scheduled to be restored by early next week."
According to the headquarters, as of noon today, 325 systems, or 45.8% of the total 709 systems, have been fully restored. Of the 384 systems not yet restored, 288 are to be normalized by the end of this month, and 76 by the 20th of next month.
The remaining 20 systems that suffered direct fire damage will transfer to the Daegu Center's private cloud to push restoration. On this, Kim, the Vice Minister, said, "We are sharing restoration schedules and more with five responsible ministries and agencies—Ministry of Health and Welfare, National Fire Agency, Ministry of the Interior and Safety, Public Procurement Service, and Ministry of Climate, Energy and Environment," adding, "On the 17th, we will tour the Daegu Center site and, together with private companies, draw up detailed implementation plans."
Kim, the Vice Minister, said, "We will continue to make every effort so your inconveniences can be resolved swiftly," adding, "We deeply thank the public for using alternative measures and cooperating despite the inconvenience."