SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – The health ministry on Wednesday began deploying military doctors and public physicians to hospital emergency rooms suffering from staff shortages, but concerns about further disruptions to the health care system have grown, officials said. The government deployed 15 military doctors to assist in emergency rooms of five hospitals, including [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s health ministry said Thursday that it will have hospitals roll out another recruitment notice for trainee doctors this month, following a lackluster response from the medical community to the initial round that ended the previous day. The announcement came as only 104 candidates applied for trainee doctor [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – The recent recruitment efforts for next year’s specialties at the renowned ‘Big 5′ hospitals in South Korea saw critical departments like pediatrics as well as obstetrics and gynecology facing challenges in meeting their quotas. Despite government incentives, a reluctance to pursue these specialties has persisted. Even in rural areas, where [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A significant portion of physician assistants (PAs), responsible for assuming certain doctor duties, operate in operating rooms or other areas involving direct interaction with patients’ lives, a government data showed Sunday. The Ministry of Health and Welfare conducted a survey across 12 general hospitals, 14 hospitals with over 300 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 70 percent of university hospitals accross the country have failed to recruit a single resident for their pediatrics departments for the first half of this year. Rep. Seo Young-seok of the Democratic Party referred to a report from the Ministry of Health and Welfare that revealed Seoul [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The average amount of time taken for diagnosis of patients visiting hospitals and medical clinics was shorter than the amount of time spent waiting, a government report showed Sunday. The Ministry of Health and Welfare conducted a survey of 16,466 people over 15 years of age, 55.1 percent of [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The state human rights watchdog said Thursday it has asked the health minister to devise guidelines for the hospitalization of transgender people. The National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK) said it has made the recommendation after receiving a petition from a trans woman who unsuccessfully tried to be [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A majority of pediatrics departments at training hospitals in Seoul are planning to reduce their medical treatment capacity due to a shortage of medical staff, a survey showed Monday. The Korean Pediatric Society conducted two nationwide surveys of 96 pediatrics departments at training hospitals in September and December, 75 [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The government has decided to reflect the hospital admission rate of COVID-19 patients in the assessment of medical institutions as a way to give incentives to those who actively accommodate virus patients. The Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters said Wednesday it devised an incentive to encourage medical institutions [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The government plans to differentiate the level of compensation it pays to medical institutions taking care of COVID-19 patients depending on the length of the patient’s stay. The Central Disaster Management Headquarters, which operates under the umbrella of the Ministry of Health and Welfare, recently held a compensation deliberation [...]