SEOUL, Apr. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The government is determined to accomplish medical reform, a senior official said Friday, although a prolonged walkout by trainee doctors has disrupted public health services at major hospitals for more than six weeks. Second Vice Health Minister Park Min-soo made the remarks at a government response meeting, a day [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The government is open to the possibility of changing its policy to increase the medical school admission quota if a better option is proposed, the interior minister said Wednesday, as the walkout by protesting trainee doctors continued for the seventh week. Interior Minister Lee Sang-min made the remark during [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – With a prolonged strike by resident physicians in South Korea disrupting hospital operations, many nurses are reconsidering their career paths, with an increasing number exploring opportunities to work overseas, where the nursing profession is more robust and offers better compensation. Cho, 33, a nurse at a university hospital in Uijeongbu, [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The government remains open to talks with doctors if they come up with a unified and reasonable solution to resolve an impasse over a reform to hike the number of medical students, a senior official said Tuesday. The comments by Deputy Health Minister Jun Byung-wang followed remarks a day [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Health Minister Cho Kyoo-hong said Monday the government will accomplish medical reform, despite a prolonged walkout by junior doctors that have crippled public health services at major hospitals for nearly six weeks. “The government will accomplish medical reform by only looking at the people,” Cho told a government response [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The government’s ongoing push for medical reform is for the people, and it cannot be subject to negotiations, the health ministry said Friday, effectively rejecting the medical community’s call for modifying the state plan to markedly raise medical school enrollment quota. More than 90 percent of the country’s 13,000 [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Intern doctors, who have left their worksites in protest of a plan to hike the number of medical students, will be barred from training in the first half of this year unless they register for jobs by April 2, a senior official said Thursday. Deputy Health Minister Jun Byung-wang [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The health ministry on Wednesday appealed to defiant junior doctors to come forward for talks with the government, as a prolonged walkout by trainee doctors has crippled major hospitals for more than five weeks. Second Vice Health Minister Park Min-soo urged defiant trainee doctors to “form a responsible delegation [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A major lobby group of community doctors is set to elect a new leader Tuesday, with a prolonged walkout by junior doctors over the increased medical school enrollment quota continuing to disrupt public health services at major hospitals. The Korean Medical Association (KMA), which represents some 100,000 community doctors, [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of medical professors on Monday demanded the government scrap a reform plan that increased medical school admission seats, saying it would sit down for talks with the government only if the plan is abolished. The demand by the Medical Professors Association of Korea is expected to complicate [...]