South Korea Responds to Doctor Strike: Deploys Military, Civilian Physicians to Impacted Hospitals hngn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from hngn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Unionized health care workers have begun a nationwide strike on Thursday despite the government sending a message of warning that it might consider taking actions against the protest, dismissing it as "merely political." The Korean Health and Medical Workers' Union (KHMU) is demanding the Korean government to hire more medical personnel and improve their working conditions. However, the Health Ministry...
The Ministry of Health and Welfare and medical groups are at loggerheads over the government's proposal to increase the medical student quota, a plan which the government had previously retracted following fierce protests from doctors in 2020. The thorny issue was brought up again in the ministry's New Year policy briefing to President Yoon Suk Yeol, Monday, promising to speed up discussions with the medical community on its plan to raise the quota to deal with a looming shortage of physicians in Korea.