Minister Cho Kyu-hong: "Responding to Medical School Professors' Resignations and Clinic Closures... Additional Personnel Deployment"

Cho Kyu-hong, Minister of Health and Welfare, stated on the 29th, "We will further strengthen the emergency medical system by dispatching additional medical personnel to prevent harm to patients caused by the sudden resignation or suspension of medical school professors."

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Minister Cho said at the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters meeting on doctors' collective action held at the Government Complex Sejong that "the medical community's collective action has entered its 11th week."

He urged the medical community, saying, "The collective action of residents has exceeded two months and has already reached the end of April. I once again ask you to return to the patients as soon as possible."

He continued, "When the professors stay on site and the residents return to the hospitals to be by the patients' side, the public will take your voices more seriously," adding, "Medical organizations should not only insist on the complete cancellation of medical school enrollment increases, which does not meet the public's expectations, but also promptly participate in dialogue for the innovation and development of our country's medical system."

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