Over 70% of Trainee Doctors Submit Resignations in South Korea Amid Protests
Anxiety is mounting in South Korea’s largest hospitals, now starting to buckle under the absence of thousands of doctors who are on strike.
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Anxiety is mounting in South Korea’s largest hospitals, now starting to buckle under the absence of thousands of doctors who are on strike.
AsiaToday reporters Seol So-young, Park Joo-yeon, Kim Seo-yoon, and Hong Sum-miPatients waiting for urgent surgeries or treatment for serious diseases..
Hospitals across the country were plunged into chaos, as surgeries were delayed and appointments canceled, following the resignation of 6,415 junior doctors by Tuesday to protest t...
More than 70 percent of trainee doctors have submitted their resignations in protest of a plan to boost the number of medical students, officials said Wednesday, with the governmen...
Thousands of trainee doctors at South Korea's biggest hospitals joined a walkout on Wednesday to protest a plan to admit more students to medical school, disrupting treatment for scores of patients, health authorities said. The government wants to increase medical school admissions from 3,000 now to 5,000 from the 2025 academic year, and then add 10,000 more by 2035, in a bid to boost healthcare in remote areas and cope with the increasing demands of one of the world's most rapidly ageing societies. Doctors and medical students who have joined the protest, however, say South Korea ...