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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 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 Korea's government late on Friday (March 1) publicly ordered 13 doctors, at least some of whom have been vocal about a walkout by roughly 9,000 physicians over a health system reform plan, to return to work or face penalties.
SEOUL — South Korean police launched a raid on Friday (March 1) targeting officials of the Korean Medical Association, as authorities step up pressure to end a walkout by trainee doctors protesting against plans to reform the health system.
SEOUL — President Yoon Suk-yeol vowed on Tuesday (Feb 27) to go ahead with a plan to increase the number of students admitted into medical schools to improve healthcare in South Korea, and said there was no justification for the protests this reform had triggered.
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.
SEOUL - South Korea has raised its health alert as of Friday morning after thousands of doctors walked off the job this week to protest against a government plan to raise the number of medical school admissions, the health ministry said.
SEOUL — South Korea's biggest hospitals cancelled procedures and turned away patients seeking emergency care on Wednesday (Feb 21) after thousands of trainee doctors walked off the job in protest at a government plan to boost medical school admissions.