Park Min-soo, Second Vice Minister of Health and Welfare, will preside over the 39th meeting of the Medical Collective Action Central Incident Control Headquarters on the 28th. 28.4.2024. Provided by the Ministry of Health and Welfare
As the medical vacuum situation, which occurred when residents (interns and residents) left hospitals to protest the government’s policy of increasing medical school admissions, continues for more than 70 days, the government is at negotiating table, saying, “We are willing to have one-on-one conversations” with doctors. He repeatedly urged them to come forward.
Park Min-soo, Second Vice Minister of Health and Welfare, told the medical community during the Central Headquarters Briefing on Security and Disaster Countermeasures on Doctors’ Collective Action on the 29th: “Rather than avoiding dialogue by placing various conditions such as the abolition of increment in medical schools and a one-year postponement, we should accept the government’s true intentions with an open mind and engage in dialogue “I ask you once again to step forward as president,” he said.
Deputy Minister Park said: “It has been about 70 days since residents left the medical field due to collective action, and in this situation, even medical school professors talk about collective action, and the pain and the anxiety of seriously ill patients are increasing, ” And he adds: “Doctors and patients, who are the most important in the treatment, “there is great concern that the relationship of trust between the two parties may be broken,” he stressed .
He continued: “Although some doctors are raising their voices by resigning and discontinuing treatment, many health workers on the ground are helping patients struggling at the crossroads between life and death to bear it and cope well, and remain in their positions with the they thought their students would return.” He added: “The government will improve policies so that doctors who care for patients can work in better conditions and focus on medical care with pride.”
Kim So-young, Donga.com reporter sykim41@donga.com
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