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The South Korean government appears to have shelved a plan to take punitive measures against a prolonged walkout by trainee doctors and have pulled back slightly from its plan to increase medical school admission quotas amid a standoff with .
Some trainee doctors have returned to their worksites, a senior health ministry official said Friday, amid prolonged walkouts by medical interns and residents against the government s plan to boost the number of medical students.
More than 590 resident doctors who left their hospitals in protest of the government’s medical school quota expansion have returned, the Health Ministry said Friday, without providing the names of the hospitals, citing the possibility of future disadvantages from the medical circle. Currently, a little more than 590 out of 9,900 resident doctors, or six percent of the total, have returned to their training hosp.
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Second Vice Health Minister Park Min-soo said Monday that the government plans to deploy more military doctors and other medical staff as senior doctors at five major hospitals in Seoul decided to take a weekly day off starting this week.