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 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A civic group filed a complaint Wednesday against trainee doctors, who have collectively resigned over the planned hike in medical school enrollment quotas, and leaders of a doctors’ association, asking police to investigate them for violating the medical and other laws. The group, which calls itself the People’s Livelihood [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – More than 70 percent of trainee doctors have submitted their resignations in protest of a plan to boost the number of medical students, officials said Wednesday, with the government ordering about 6,000 of them to return to work. Concerns have heightened as doctors and the government were in a [...]