SEOUL, Jun. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – The antitrust regulator launched an on-site inspection into a major lobby group for doctors Wednesday for allegedly forcing its members to join a walkout against the government’s medical reform plan, officials said. The Fair Trade Commission (FTC) sent inspectors to the office of the Korean Medical Association (KMA) in [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Health Minister Cho Kyoo-hong said Tuesday the government ordered community doctors who joined a one-day walkout to return to work, warning that they would face legal punishment unless they comply with the order. The order came as about 4 percent of the nation’s 36,371 community hospitals, excluding dental and [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Some community doctors were set to stage a one-day walkout Tuesday in protest of the government’s medical reform, amid growing anxiety among patients as medical professors of Seoul National University hospitals began an indefinite walkout. About 4 percent of the nation’s 36,371 community hospitals, excluding dental and Oriental medicine [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Medical professors at hospitals affiliated with Seoul National University (SNU) began an indefinite walkout on Monday, according to a group of patients, with about 55 percent of the professors expected to join the move against the government’s medical reform. A total of 529 professors at the four hospitals — [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A union representing hospital workers on Friday urged doctors to abandon their plan for a one-day walkout scheduled for next week, as the medical sector has been experiencing a nearly four-month-long vacuum due to physicians protesting the increase in medical school quotas. The Korea Medical Association (KMA), a major [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Patients with severe illnesses, including cancer, gathered in front of Seoul National University Hospital on June 12 to urge doctors to immediately call off their planned indefinite strike starting on June 17, with some groups considering filing lawsuits against the striking physicians. At a news conference, the Korean Alliance for [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Any illegal acts related to the collective action by doctors will be dealt with sternly, the government said Thursday, as medical professors and community doctors plan to stage walkouts in protest against the medical school quota hike. The Korea Medical Association (KMA), the biggest doctors’ group, plans a one-day [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Professors at 40 medical schools were set to hold a meeting Wednesday to decide whether or not to join a planned strike by community doctors, an official at a group of the professors has said. Community doctors voted to take a day off next Tuesday in support of a [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Trainee doctors who left their worksites for months in protest of the government’s medical reform were seen as mostly lukewarm to plans by the government to allow them to seek other career paths or return to hospitals without legal burdens, according to some junior doctors Wednesday. In an apparent [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The health ministry said Friday it will provide more financial support for trainee doctors and begin a trial operation to reduce their working hours, amid protracted walkouts prompted by a plan that boosted the number of medical students. Deputy Health Minister Jun Byung-wang told reporters that the pilot program [...]