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The 2024 South Korean medical crisis is an ongoing healthcare crisis following the announcement of new government policies that would significantly increase medical student admission quotas. Thousands of residents and interns have since resigned, resulting in medical school professors working to cover.
The government wants to increase South Korea’s medical school enrollment quota by 2,000 starting next year, from the current 3,058, to better deal with the country’s rapidly aging population.
2024 South Korean medical crisis: The government begins suspending the medical licenses of thousands of resigning doctors due to growing concerns that the resignation is affecting medical services. [13] Over 10,000 doctors go on strike at 100 educational hospitals, leading to a number of delays in treatment. [13]
About 4% of the country’s 36,000 private medical facilities, categorized as clinics, have told authorities they would participate in a one-day strike on Tuesday, according to South Korea’s ...
He said that more than 400 emergency medical treatment centers across South Korea will stay open around the clock. He said the government will deploy military doctors if the situation worsens.
Military Doctors Deployed to Hospitals. South Korea's Healthcare Crisis.") (2) But "strike" cannot be applied to activities of med students, who outnumbered junior doctors. Y-S.Ko 22:44, 5 August 2024 (UTC) 1. the articles are more on the strike actions. 2. the medical students joining in are a recent development.
Medical professors in South Korea said they will cut back on the hours they spend in practice starting on Monday to support trainee doctors on strike for more than a month over a government plan ...
On 3 December 2024, at 22:27 Korea Standard Time (KST), Yoon Suk Yeol, the president of South Korea, declared martial law during a televised address. In his declaration, Yoon accused the Democratic Party (DPK), which has a majority in the National Assembly, of conducting "anti-state activities" and collaborating with "North Korean communists" to destroy the country, thereby creating a ...