SEOUL, Mar. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Health Minister Cho Kyoo-hong on Monday expressed grave concerns about a decision by medical professors to resign en masse in support of junior doctors’ walkout that has crippled medical services for nearly a month. About 90 percent of 13,000 interns and resident doctors have stayed off the job since [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Health Minister Cho Kyoo-hong on Friday made a last-minute appeal for medical professors not to resign en masse in support of a prolonged walkout by junior doctors, as their threat to resign is expected to further disrupt services at major hospitals. More than 90 percent of the country’s 13,000 [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A leader of the Korean Medical Association (KMA), the biggest doctors’ group, appeared before police Thursday for his second round of questioning over suspicions of instigating a mass walkout by trainee doctors. Park Myung-ha, chief of the KMA emergency committee’s organizational affairs, arrived at the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency’s [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 13 (Yonhap) — The health ministry chided medical professors Wednesday for moving to resign in support of a mass walkout by junior doctors that has disrupted public health services for more than three weeks. More than 90 percent of the country’s 13,000 trainee doctors walked off the job in the form of mass [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Prime Minister Han Duck-soo said Wednesday the government’s decision to increase the medical school enrollment quota by 2,000 to address the shortage of doctors was based on scientific analysis. Over 90 percent of the country’s 13,000 junior doctors have been on mass resignations for nearly a month, protesting against [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Medical students nationwide have resolved to request their schools grant leave of absence applications they filed in collective action protesting the government’s plan to dramatically raise the medical school enrollment quota, their association said Wednesday. The Korean Medical Student Association said the decision was unanimously reached during a plenary [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Health Minister Cho Kyoo-hong expressed deep concerns Tuesday over medical professors’ decision to resign, regarding the ongoing confrontation by the government and striking trainee doctors, vowing efforts to seek a breakthrough. On Monday, medical school professors at Seoul National University (SNU) resolved to submit resignations en masse next week [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Medical school professors at Seoul National University (SNU) resolved Monday to submit resignations en masse beginning next week if the government does not seek a reasonable breakthrough in the protracted walkout by trainee doctors, the professors’ council said. The decision was announced by the council of SNU medical professors [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The health ministry said Monday it had sent prior notices of license suspension to some 5,000 trainee doctors who have defied an order to return to work, in protest of a plan to boost the number of medical students. Deputy Health Minister Jun Byung-wang told reporters that it completed [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Health Minister Cho Kyoo-hong said Monday the government will take lenient measures if trainee doctors return to work before administrative procedures to suspend their licenses are completed, although they defied a deadline to avoid punitive steps. Cho made the remark as some 93 percent of the 13,000 junior doctors [...]