SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Health Minister Cho Kyoo-hong said Tuesday that the government will extend its financial support for emergency care services by another month, as massive walkouts by junior doctors have disrupted health services at major hospitals for nearly three months. The government has injected 190 billion won (US$140 million) per month [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Two major general hospitals in Seoul were set to suspend outpatient clinics and surgeries Tuesday, as their senior doctors began taking a weekly day off amid a protracted walkout by junior doctors in protest of the government’s medical reform. Emergency rooms and inpatient care will remain in place at [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Health Minister Cho Kyoo-hong said Monday that the government plans to deploy more medical staff as senior doctors at five major hospitals in Seoul decided to take a weekly day off starting this week. Cho also renewed a pledge to accomplish medical reform, although a mass walkout by trainee [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Professors from around 20 major medical schools nationwide will decide Friday whether to take a weekly day off while struggling to fill the void of trainee doctors who have walked off their jobs for more than two months, officials said. The emergency committee for national medical professors will hold [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A presidential committee on medical reform was formally launched on Thursday with the aim of seeking a breakthrough over a prolonged walkout by doctors, as their labor action has disrupted public health services for more than two months. Prospects for the committee, however, are uncertain as representatives from senior [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s health ministry on Wednesday expressed regret over medical professors’ decision to take a weekly day off starting next week and urged them to engage in dialogue rather than resort to collective action amid the prolonged medical vacuum in the country. On the previous day, an emergency committee [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Medical school professors at Seoul National University (SNU) are reviewing taking a day off every week as they have been thinly stretched amid the prolonged walkout by trainee doctors, officials said Tuesday. The emergency committee of the SNU medical professors’ council will hold a general meeting later in the [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Health Minister Cho Kyoo-hong said Monday the government will not hold discussions on potentially scrapping a plan to boost medical school admissions, renewing a pledge to accomplish medical reform despite a fierce protest by doctors. About 12,000 trainee doctors have left their worksites since Feb. 20 in the walkout [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The government is likely to accept a request made by the chiefs of six national universities to lower their medical school enrollment quotas for next year, officials said Friday. The six universities, all located outside the capital region, made the request Thursday amid an ongoing standoff between the government [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Many professors at the College of Medicine at Seoul National University have been working exhausting 80-hour weeks or more to fill in for residents who have been on strike for two months, a recent survey by the emergency committee at the medical school and hospital has revealed. On April 16, [...]