Both patients’ groups and the medical sector are reacting against a revised Medical Services Act that requires medical institutions to install close-circuit cameras (CCTV) in operating rooms to prevent possible abuses against patients under anesthesia.
President Yoon Suk Yeol is facing pressure from doctors and medical workers, especially nursing assistants, to veto the legislation of the Nursing Act. Divisions within the medical community have deepened following the act s controversial approval in the opposition-controlled National Assembly.
A conflict is intensifying between nurses and other medical workers, including doctors, over the National Assembly s move to pass a bill legislating the Nursing Act. Independent from the Medical Services Act, the proposed nursing law would clarify the scope of nurses work and improve their working conditions, aiming to resolve nurses frequent complaints over ambiguities in their roles and duties as stipulated in the Medical Services Act that they claim have increased their workload.
A conflict is intensifying between nurses and other medical workers, including doctors, over the National Assembly s move to pass a bill legislating the Nursing Act. Independent from the Medical Services Act, the proposed nursing law would clarify the scope of nurses work and improve their working conditions, aiming to resolve nurses frequent complaints over ambiguities in their roles and duties as stipulated in the Medical Services Act that they claim have increased their workload.
Doctors have warned they will stage a strike in protest of the proposed legislation of the Nursing Act - a new set of laws that stipulate the roles and duties of licensed nurses - as they view it may cause confusion in the public healthcare system if passed.