KMA Emergency Committee Chair: "License Suspension Administrative Sanction Unfair... Will Fight Until the End"

"The order itself is illegal and unjust"

Kim Taek-woo, Chairman of the Emergency Response Committee of the Korean Medical Association, and Park Myung-ha, Organizational Chairman of the Emergency Response Committee, who received the "License Suspension Administrative Disposition" prior notice, expressed their objection to the unfairness and stated that they will fight to the end through litigation.

Kim Taek-woo, Emergency Response Committee Chairman of the Korean Medical Association. / Photo by Choi Tae-won peaceful1@

On the 21st, Chairman Kim and Chairman Park stated, "We absolutely cannot accept the license suspension disposition by the Ministry of Health and Welfare. The order itself is illegal and unjust, and the administrative disposition based on it is also illegal and unjust," adding, "We will fight to the end through administrative lawsuits and other legal procedures."

According to the Emergency Response Committee, they received the prior notice of administrative disposition for suspension of medical license qualifications sent by the Ministry of Health and Welfare on the 20th. It was claimed that their remarks at the 'Rally to Stop the Increase of Medical School Quotas and Essential Medical Package' on the 15th violated the prohibition order against inciting collective action (Article 66, Paragraph 1, Item 10 of the Medical Service Act).

The Emergency Response Committee stated, "The government's essential medical package and the increase of 2,000 medical school quotas are arbitrary and excessive policies that trigger the collapse of Korean healthcare," and added, "To prematurely block the voluntary and legitimate expression of 140,000 medical association members and 20,000 medical students, the government is carrying out unreasonable intimidation without legal grounds on all fronts."

They continued, "Unfair dispositions and disadvantages against junior and fellow doctors by the government will be actively protected through the Emergency Response Committee," and said, "If administrative and legal measures against medical students and residents, as well as medical association members, continue, Kim Taek-woo and Park Myung-ha will dedicate themselves fully to resist the unfair policies and oppression to the end and enter the final struggle."

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