SEOUL, Feb. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Interior Minister Lee Sang-min renewed calls for trainee doctors to return to work Thursday as the government-set deadline is set to expire later in the day for their return from a walkout protesting the government’s medical school quota hike plan. The government has given thousands of interns and resident [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A mass walkout by trainee doctors is approaching a deadline set by the government to return to work, as medical services have been crippled with both the government and junior doctors showing little signs of backing down. About 9,000 trainee doctors walked off their jobs for the ninth day [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Cases of patient damage are piling up, with an elderly woman dying of cardiac arrest without treatment, as trainee doctors have been away from work for the seventh day Monday in protest of the government’s medical school quota hike plan. Concerns about a healthcare service crisis are growing as more than 9,000 intern and resident doctors have walked off [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The government said Monday it will not hold trainee doctors accountable if they return to work by Thursday as intern and resident doctors stayed off the job for the seventh day in protest of the medical school quota hike plan. Interior Minister Lee Sang-min made the remarks during a [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Concerns over public health deepened Monday as surgeries were delayed or reduced as thousands of trainee doctors didn’t come to work for the seventh day in a row in protest of the government’s plan to boost the number of medical students. About 8,000 trainee doctors have left worksites to [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean government’s policy to increase the number of medical school seats has led to a collective action by doctors, resulting in a healthcare gap that has left patients out in the cold. Amidst this backdrop, the upcoming tvN drama “Wise Resident Life” is facing backlash for its portrayal [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – In a dramatic turn of events, the medical community in South Korea has launched a series of protests, including mass resignations by resident doctors and a collective leave of absence by medical students, in opposition to the government’s plans to increase medical school admissions. This move has sparked widespread concern [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly 80 percent of trainee doctors nationwide have submitted resignations and over 7,800 doctors walked off the job to protest a plan to raise the medical school enrollment quota, leading to the government’s issuance of the highest health alert amid an exacerbating medical system crisis. Intern and resident doctors [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The government raised its four-scale health care service crisis gauge to the highest level of “serious” Friday in response to the departure of doctors in their collective action against the planned increase in the medical school admission quota. In an effort to alleviate the growing strain on the medical [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Major general hospitals in Seoul and elsewhere struggled to cope with patients Thursday, as thousands of trainee doctors left their worksites for the third day in a row in protest of a plan to boost the number of medical students. A confrontation between doctors and the government over the [...]