Mokpo City Council Medical School Attraction Special Committee, Full Effort to Promote Medical School Attraction in Jeonnam Region

Establishing Medical Schools Is Essential for the Constitutionally Guaranteed Right to Public Health

The Mokpo City Council's Special Committee for Supporting the Attraction of a Medical School (Chairman Park Yong-sik) conducted a campaign on the 8th to inform returning holiday travelers and local residents about the necessity of establishing a medical school in the Jeonnam region in celebration of the Lunar New Year.

The campaign, held around Mokpo Station, involved four organizations including the Mokpo City Council, Jeollanam-do Provincial Council, Mokpo City, and Mokpo National University officials. They distributed promotional leaflets for attracting the medical school and collectively emphasized the need to establish a medical school in the Jeonnam area.

A campaign is being conducted to inform returning visitors and local residents about the necessity of establishing a medical school in the Jeonnam region during the Lunar New Year holiday.
[Photo by Mokpo City Council]

On the 1st, the government announced essential medical policies focusing on sufficient expansion of medical personnel, strengthening regional healthcare, establishing a safety net for medical accidents, and enhancing fairness in the medical fee system. On the 6th, it announced plans to increase medical school quotas by 2,000 students; however, the plan did not include the establishment of new regional medical schools, public medical schools, or the introduction of a regional doctor system.

Park Yong-sik, chairman of the Mokpo City Council's Medical School Special Committee, expressed the medical reality of Jeollanam-do, stating, "Jeollanam-do is a region where 58% of the nation's inhabited islands are concentrated, and it is a medically vulnerable area with the highest levels nationwide in elderly population aged 65 and over, the proportion of patients with seven major chronic diseases, and emergency patient rates."

He added, "Establishing a medical school is a responsibility and mission of the era to secure citizens' lives and health rights. Although various health and medical policies are being promoted, such as building a public-private medical institution cooperation system, expanding medical personnel, fostering health institutions, and providing medical services to vulnerable areas, the absence of a medical school shows its limitations."

Meanwhile, the Mokpo City Council's Medical School Special Committee consists of eight members: Chairman Park Yong-sik, Vice Chairman Choi Hyun-joo, and councilors Choi Won-seok, Park Yong-jun, Park Chang-su, Choi Ji-seon, Park Soo-kyung, and Park Yoo-jung. The committee actively engages in legislative activities such as participating in various debates to promote the necessity of establishing a national medical school in Jeonnam, holding regional national university medical school establishment forums, and conducting signature campaigns.

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