On the afternoon of March 3, local time, doctors from all over South Korea gathered near the South Korean National Assembly for a large-scale rally to continue to express their dissatisfaction with the medical reform policies launched by South Korea such as expanding the enrollment of medical students. South Korean Prime Minister Han Deok-so said on the 3rd that he would not succumb to the collective resignation and resignation of the people's lives as hostages, and if the doctor illegally left the medical scene, he would fulfill his obligations to protect the lives of the people. Starting this week, a special committee on health care reform will be launched to prepare for the advancement of health care reform.
On the 3rd, in Seoul, South Korea, at the National Doctors' General Mobilization Meeting held next to Yeouido Park, participants held signs and shouted slogans.
On March 1, South Korea's Minister of Health and Welfare, Cho Gyuhong, reported that from 11 o'clock on February 28 to 17 o'clock on the 29th local time, a total of 271 doctors returned to work in 100 large general hospitals in South Korea, and a total of 565 doctors have returned to work; As of 11 o'clock on February 29, a total of 8,945 interns and resident doctors left their posts in these 100 large general hospitals, accounting for 718%。
South Korea** conducts a mandatory investigation against the Korean Medical Doctor Association who was reported for suspected violations of the "Medical **" and other related persons. On the same day, the Public Crime Investigation Team of the Seoul National Police Agency began to execute the seizure and search warrants, and dispatched investigators to the Office of the Emergency Countermeasures Committee in the Yongsan-gu Medical Association Hall, the Office of the Seoul Medical Association, and the Office of the Gangwon-do Medical Association, and other places to seize and search the mobile phones and computers of former and current officials of the Medical Association.
According to Xinhua News Agency, February 29 is the deadline for doctors who resigned in the midst of the medical crisis in South Korea to be ordered to return to work, but most doctors refuse to return to work. South Korea's medical student expansion plan released earlier in February was strongly opposed by the medical community and medical students, and the wave of resignations of interns and residents has fermented since February 19, and the crisis level of the Korean medical system has been raised to the highest level of "severe".
South Korea** ordered on February 26 that doctors must return to work by February 29 or face legal responsibility. Under South Korean law, doctors who fail to return to work after the deadline face a ban from practicing medicine for up to one year, and in serious cases, up to three years in prison. Doctors who have been sentenced to imprisonment, deferred sentences or suspended sentences may have their licenses revoked.
Comprehensive report by Beijing Business Daily.