Among the “big 5” major hospitals in Seoul, professors working at Seoul National University Hospital and Severance Hospital will suspend outpatient care and surgeries on the 30th.
According to the medical community, among the Big 5, professors at Seoul National University Hospital and Severance Hospital have decided not to perform surgery or outpatient treatment for the day. However, treatment for emergency/serious patients and hospitalized patients will be maintained.
In the metropolitan area, many of the 508 professors at Seoul National University’s Bundang Hospital are taking leaves of absence, as are Korea University’s Yongin Severance Hospital and Ansan Hospital.
In the provinces, professors at Gyeongsang National University Hospital in Jinju, Gyeongsangnam-do, do not provide medical care for the day.
Among other “Big 5”, Asan Medical Center in Seoul will stop providing treatment and surgery to general patients this Friday, the 3rd of next month, according to the situation of each department.
This is in accordance with the decision of the Emergency Response Committee (Emergency Response Committee) of professors of Ulsan University Medical School, which has Asan Medical Center in Seoul as its teaching hospital, and Ulsan University Hospital will also be closed the same day.
St. Mary’s Hospital in Seoul will stop providing outpatient care and non-emergency surgeries “every Friday” starting the 3rd of next month.
Professors at Samsung Seoul Hospital are planning to take the day off on a day when no medical treatment or surgery is scheduled.
Previously, the professors’ emergency committee of Sungkyunkwan University Medical School told professors at Samsung Seoul Hospital, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital and Samsung Changwon Hospital to maintain working hours of 52 hours a week, but professors who accumulated tiredness due to excessive working hours it is allowed to have a working time of 52 hours per week. day without treatment, such as outpatient care or surgery once a week. “Please take a day off and rest,” she advised.
In addition, St. Mary’s Hospital in Daejeon plans to close on the 3rd, in line with St. Mary’s Hospital in Seoul, and the professors of Konyang University Hospital also decided to close on the same day.
Chungbuk National University Hospital, which has been closed every Friday since the 5th, will also be closed this Friday.
Professor leave is a decision made by the faculty committee of each medical school, and professors voluntarily choose whether or not to participate.
The government predicted that there would be no significant changes in the medical field even if professors went on leave.
Park Min-soo, Second Vice Minister of Health and Welfare, explained the plan to send additional staff due to the resignation or hiatus of medical school professors in a briefing the previous day and predicted: “There will not be a serious distress at the level of a medical crisis, as many people are worried.” Cho Yoo-kyung, reporter for Donga.com polaris27 @donga.com
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