If the government does not relent senior doctors at general hospitals will start to resign on April 25, and the healthcare system could “collapse”, Korean Medical Association says.
The two-month medical standoff between the Yoon Suk Yeol administration and medical circles will likely enter its second stage, amid no signs of initiating talks over the government s medical school admission plan and the looming medical crisis following defiant doctors mass resignations. The ruling bloc s crushing defeat in Wednesday s general election was a testament that voters "had brought judgment" to.
The medical community appears to be facing a rift over coming up with a unified proposal for the expansion plan a day after the government requested it, as it seeks a breakthrough in the prolonged medical standoff through dialogue. Lim Hyun-taek, the newly appointed president of the Korean Medical Association the largest coalition of doctors’ groups here, with some 140,000 members demanded Kim Taek-woo, t.
SEOUL, South Korea South Korea s president vowed Monday not to back down in the face of vehement protests by doctors seeking to derail his plan to drastically increase medical school admissions, as he called their walkouts "an illegal collective action" that poses "a grave threat to our society."
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