In May 2000, the Taipei City Health Bureau became the first in Taiwan to introduce a "medical injury compensation system." The bureau appropriated money from the public affairs budget of the city's public hospitals, to set up a fund to provide compensation to patients injured during treatment in city hospitals, regardless of whether the doctor was at fault.
台北市衛生局在八十九年五月首先創辦了「醫療事故補償」制度，從市立醫院的公務預算中提撥一筆基金，該體系醫院的病人因醫療發生傷害，無論醫師是否有過失，病人都能獲得補償。