SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The difficulty that hospitals face in operating emergency rooms has long been a serious issue in South Korea, the health ministry said Thursday, adding that it is a major reason for the government to push for medical reform that includes the increase in the medical school admission quota. Concerns [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of requests from emergency rescue workers to find hospitals for patients has more than doubled this year compared to last year, amid prolonged emergency room disruptions nationwide, the fire agency said Wednesday. 119 emergency control centers nationwide selected hospitals to accommodate emergency patients on 1,197 occasions from [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – A hospital in Seoul’s Seocho district has captured public attention with its unconventional employee benefits, including vacation time and celebratory payments for divorced staff members. The unique workplace policies of this hair transplant clinic were featured on MBC’s reality show “The Manager” on August 31, offering a glimpse into a [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — In a stark contradiction to government assurances, a coalition of medical school professors in South Korea has painted a grim picture of the nation’s healthcare system, claiming that many emergency rooms are already unable to provide normal care. The group asserts that punishing those responsible for the healthcare breakdown and [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Health Minister Cho Kyoo-hong on Monday tried to soothe concerns about hospital emergency rooms, as some doctors have warned of a potential disruption of emergency care due to a prolonged walkout by trainee doctors. “Although there are some difficulties, we believe that emergency rooms are capable of maintaining operations,” [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Hospitals were set to wrap up the hiring of more junior doctors Friday, but there are expected to be few applicants as many trainee doctors have defied the government’s medical reform for nearly seven months, officials said. Hospitals issued new recruitment notices for trainee doctors last week after the [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Hospitals were set to begin hiring about 7,700 trainee doctors on Monday, although medical professors have warned of boycotting their training programs in protest of the government’s push for accepting the resignations of striking trainees. Monthslong standoffs with trainee doctors over the medical school admission quota hikes have shown [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The government has notified hospitals that it will reduce next year’s quota of trainee doctors unless they accept their resignations by next week, according to officials and the medical community Tuesday. The move is seen as a measure to put pressure on trainee doctors, who have left their worksites [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A probe has found large-scale insurance fraud at a traditional medicine hospital involving more than 100 people, the financial regulator said Tuesday. Around 100 “fake” patients at the hospital are suspected of having made false insurance claims worth about 100 billion won (US$72.3 million), according to the Financial Supervisory [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The government has been weighing measures on how to deal with trainee doctors who refuse to return to hospitals in protest of medical reform, according to officials Friday. With most trainee doctors still remaining unresponsive to the government’s appeasement measures to help them return to hospitals, officials said the [...]