Doctors strike in Seoul; Protesters were threatened with suspension of medical license!
| In response to the plan to increase the admission of medical students, the South Korean government threatened to revoke the medical license in the midst of a massive strike by the country's doctors. |
report Mehr News quoted by Al Jazeera, following the massive strike by South Korean medical trainees who have ignored the government’s deadline to end the protests. Seoul threatened to suspend the medical license of the protesters.
The strike of about 9,000 medical trainees on February 20 led to the cancellation of a number of surgeries and treatment procedures, as well as creating Disruption in the operation of hospital emergency units resulted.
South Korean Health Minister Cho Kyuhong said today that officials will visit hospitals and if not The return of doctors to the workplace will be dealt with according to the regulations.
The doctors who went on strike are part of South Korea’s 140,000-strong medical community, but that’s not all. The department represents 40% of the total number of doctors in some of the country’s big hospitals. Thousands of doctors took to the streets of Seoul yesterday in a massive protest organized by the Korean Medical Association. The protesting doctors say that the government should first take care of doctors’ salaries and working conditions, and then increase the admission of medical students.
Under South Korean regulations, doctors are prohibited from striking. The government of this country says that the decision to increase the number of students admitted to medical schools by 2000 from 2025 is mandatory and the reason for this is the increase in the elderly population and also the mismatch of the number of doctors compared to patients. Seoul has 2.6 doctors per 1,000 people, making South Korea one of the countries with the smallest medical community among developed countries.
