SEOUL, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean government will start the process to review the country’s unitary medial law system that covers the entire health professional, including doctors and nurses, in follow-up measures against a controversial nursing act that had rocked the local medical community, a vice health minister said Tuesday. The nursing [...]
SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Over the past few months, the South Korean medical community has been divided sharply over the nursing act, with the Korean Nurses Association (KNA) and the Korean Medical Association (KMA) staging multiple rallies and the government and political parties fueling the debate. The nursing act was designed to clarify [...]
SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) — President Yoon Suk Yeol vetoed the opposition-led nursing act Tuesday amid strong protests from doctors and nursing assistants against it, in his second veto of a bill since he took office. The act, which was railroaded by the main opposition Democratic Party last month, is aimed at stipulating the [...]
SEOUL, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The opposition-controlled National Assembly on Thursday passed a nursing act aimed at defining the roles and responsibilities of nurses in a clearer manner amid fierce opposition from the ruling party and doctors. The bill was approved in a plenary session with 179 votes in favor and two abstentions out [...]