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As President Yoon Suk Yeol and Rep. Lee Jae-myung, chairman of the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea (DPK), found common ground on the necessity of medical reform during their meeting, the government is expected to take emboldened steps forward with its planned increase in medical school admissions.

Trade unions in the public service sector have declared weekly demonstrations in solidarity with the doctors and clinicians who have been on the streets for 48 and 30 days consecutively.

Accountability for patient deaths during the strike and failures in the health sector are the government’s.

Francis Atwoli says those behind the parallel Labour Day celebrations are opportunists trying to capitalise on Cotu's achievements.

The nationwide disruption of health services in public hospitals is now in its sixth week.

Devolved units cite desertion of duty and gross misconduct in dismissal letters.

A presidential committee to discuss the governments medical system reform drive was launched on Thursday, but got off to a shaky start as doctors, key stakeholders in the talks, boycotted the meeting to protest President Yoon Suk Yeols plan to increase the enrollment quota at Koreas medical schools.

Medical professors at major hospitals in Korea will resign later this week and have a day off next week as they have been thinly stretched amid a prolonged walkout by trainee doctors, officials said Tuesday, deepening concerns over further disruptions in the countrys health care system.

The government is seeking to convert all public servants from permanent terms to contracts.