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As the healthcare gap due to legislative conflict continues for more than two months, major teaching hospitals are expected to begin “weekly closures” starting next week.
Let’s connect with the journalist to find out more details.
Journalist Hyungmin Moon.
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Yes, professors at the country’s major teaching hospitals have decided to take a break once a week.
After an online general meeting held last night (the 26th), the Emergency Response Committee of Professors of the National Medical University, consisting of 20 medical schools, said: “We have decided to maintain working hours by 60 hours per week for long-term sustainable treatment,” and added: “To this end, 24 hours after service.” “We decided to close once a week to ensure rest,” he said.
Seoul’s major hospitals, the so-called “Big 5”, will also be closed once a week starting next week.
Seoul National University Hospital and Severance Hospital have decided to stop providing outpatient care and surgeries from the 30th of next month, while Asan Hospital and Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital have decided to stop providing outpatient care and surgeries surgical from the 3rd of next month.
Previously, professors at Samsung Seoul Hospital recommended taking a break “once a week” when treatment exceeds 52 hours per week.
However, each hospital has a policy of maintaining treatment for hospitalized patients, including emergency patients and seriously ill patients, even when they are closed, as recommended by the professor’s emergency committee.
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Medical school professors keep submitting letters of resignation, right?
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That’s right, the emergency committee of the College of Medicine of the Catholic University, which has eight teaching hospitals, including St. Mary’s Hospital in Seoul, presented the professor’s resignation letter that it had kept to the dean.
In the case of Konyang University Hospital, about 70% of professors are known to have submitted their resignation letters to the hospital director.
While medical school professors participate in the submission of resignation letters, cancer patient groups have also called for “the list of professors’ resignations to be made public in order to prepare treatment plans.”
As a result, the government’s position is that only a very limited number of resignation letters meet the requirements.
The Ministry of Health and Welfare announced yesterday: “Of the 19,000 specialists, less than 10% have submitted letters of resignation and there have been no cases of resignations from 88 teaching hospitals.”
Meanwhile, the government is understood to be considering whether and when legal disciplinary action will be taken against professors who have resigned.
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