'You're fired!': Counties issue dismissal letters to striking doctors
Devolved units cite desertion of duty and gross misconduct in dismissal letters.
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Devolved units cite desertion of duty and gross misconduct in dismissal letters.
A presidential committee to discuss the government's 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 Yeol's plan to increase the enrollment quota at Korea's 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 country's health care system.
The government is seeking to convert all public servants from permanent terms to contracts.