At the National Assembly, a Public Debate on the Establishment of Changwon Medical School Will Be Held

Co-hosted by Local National Assembly Members, Gyeongnam Province, and Changwon City

Over 200 Experts and Changwon Citizens Expected to Attend

A National Assembly forum to publicize the establishment of a medical school in Changwon Special City, Gyeongnam, will be held on the 27th at 2 p.m. in Conference Room 2 of the National Assembly Members' Office Building.

The forum is co-hosted by National Assembly members Kim Young-sun, Kang Ki-yoon, Yoon Han-hong, Lee Dal-gon, and Choi Hyung-doo, along with Gyeongsangnam-do Province and Changwon Special City. It is jointly organized by the Gyeongnam Public Health Medical Support Group and the Citizens' Promotion Committee for Attracting a Medical School, with about 200 participants including experts from various fields and Changwon citizens expected to attend.

Changwon Special City Hall, Gyeongnam.
Photo by Se-ryeong Lee

At the forum, Kim Young-soo, lead researcher at Changwon Gyeongsang National University Hospital, will present on "Progress of the Study on Estimating and Securing Physician Workforce Demand in Gyeongsangnam-do," and Professor Lim Joon from the Graduate School of Urban Health at the University of Seoul will deliver a presentation titled "The Necessity and Policy Measures for Establishing a Medical School in Changwon Special City, Gyeongnam."

Following this, Jeong Baek-geun, director of the Gyeongnam Public Health Medical Support Group, will serve as the chair, and panelists including ▲ Song Yang-su, Manager (Medical Workforce Policy Division, Ministry of Health and Welfare) ▲ Lee Ja-seong, Director (Social and Cultural Research Office, Changwon City Research Institute) ▲ Park Young-ho, Director (Planning Office, National Changwon University) ▲ Ha Chung-sik, Chairman (Hanmaeum Changwon Hospital) ▲ Kim Jin-ho, Director (Gyeongnam Newspaper) will participate in a discussion on "The Necessity and Establishment Plan of a Medical School in Changwon Special City, Gyeongnam."

The Citizens' Promotion Committee, co-chaired by Hong Nam-pyo, Mayor of Changwon Special City, Kim Yi-geun, Chairperson of the Changwon Special City Council, and Koo Ja-cheon, Chairperson of the Changwon Chamber of Commerce, plans to use this forum as a stepping stone to gain support from the National Assembly and political circles, and then build public consensus to ensure the attraction of a medical school to Changwon Special City.

Mayor Hong stated, "Due to the shortage of medical personnel and infrastructure, 200,000 patients leave Gyeongnam every year to seek medical treatment in the Seoul metropolitan area. The only solution to this problem is the establishment of a medical school in Changwon." He added, "The Changwon community will unite to demonstrate why it must be Changwon and why it can only be Changwon, and we will definitely achieve this 30-year-old aspiration."

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