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SEOUL — South Korea will start deploying military physicians and doctors from public health centres to strike-hit hospitals on Monday (March 11) to help care for patients affected by the walkout of nearly 12,000 trainee doctors from 100 hospitals over government reform plans.
SEOUL — South Korea's main doctors' lobby group said on Sunday (June 9) it would go on strike on June 18 to protest the government's healthcare reform plan, defying a warning by the prime minister that such action would damage the credibility of the medical community.
SEOUL — South Korea said on May 30 its medical schools will accept almost 1,500 additional students in 2025, pressing ahead with an admissions hike that has caused trainee doctors across the country to go on strike.
SEOUL — South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol showed the first signs of flexibility in his medical reform plan as a prolonged standoff with doctors is ramping up pressure ahead of next week's parliamentary elections which are expected to be close.
SEOUL — South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol said on Monday (April 1) his government is open to talks with doctors who oppose his plan to increase medical school admissions, while accusing critics of offering no reasonable alternative to ease a doctor shortage.
SEOUL — Medical professors in South Korea said they will cut back on the hours they spend in practise starting on Monday (March 25) to support trainee doctors on strike for more than a month over a government plan to boost medical school admissions.
SEOUL - South Korea's health minister said on Monday (March 4) that authorities will start inspecting hospitals in order to take legal action against trainee doctors who have ignored an ultimatum to end a walkout over government plans to increase medical school admissions.
SEOUL — South Korean nurses have been given legal protection to perform some medical procedures normally conducted by doctors, the health minister said on Feb 27, as the authorities seek to ease the burden on hospital staff caused by a walkout of trainee doctors.