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 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – More than 6,400 trainee doctors have submitted their resignations in protest of the government’s plan to boost the number of medical students, officials said Tuesday, as worries mount that their collective action could put public health at risk. Second Vice Health Minister Park Min-soo told reporters that the ministry [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A total of 6,415 trainee doctors at 100 hospitals have submitted their resignations in protest of the government’s plan to boost the number of medical students, the health ministry said Tuesday. Second Vice Health Minister Park Min-soo told reporters that the ministry ordered 757 trainee doctors to return to [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Trainee doctors at major general hospitals in Seoul were set to submit their letters of collective resignation Monday, in an escalation of their protest against the government’s plan to boost the number of medical students. Concerns have been brewing as doctors warn of a large-scale strike and other responses [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The health ministry on Friday ordered 221 training hospitals to ban mass leave and maintain essential medical personnel, as trainee doctors decided to submit their letters of collective resignations in protest of a plan to boost the number of medical students. The order came hours after trainee doctors of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Trainee doctors of five major general hospitals in Seoul have decided to submit their letters of resignation en masse Monday, in a move certain to intensify their strike threat over a plan to boost the number of medical students, a group of trainee doctors has said. Friday’s decision came [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The health ministry said Thursday that it will fully expand telemedicine services and mobilize assistant nurses if a major association of trainee doctors pushes ahead with a nationwide strike in protest of a plan to boost the number of medical students. Tension between doctors and the government has grown [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – An association of trainee doctors was seen shifting into cautious mode Tuesday after it set up an emergency committee in protest of a government plan to increase the number of medical students, as the health ministry called on them to avert collective action against the plan. The Korean Intern [...]