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South Korean Doctors' organisation plans Strike on June 18 to protest medical reforms
Seoul: Amid the ongoing protests against the increase in medical school quotas, South Korea's top doctors' organisation said on Sunday that it will stage a walkout and a rally on June 18.
The Korea Medical Association (KMA) said it will stage a walkout and a rally on June 18, based on the result of a vote carried out last week on whether to launch collective action, reports Yonhap News Agency.
Also Read:South Korea Doctors' Strike: Govt seems to set aside plans for punitive actions
Over 90 per cent of the participants supported the "strong protest" of the KMA in the vote carried out from Tuesday to Friday last week, the lobby group added.
According to an IANS report, "We intend to form a dedicated committee for the medical community's protest and employ every possible method to launch a comprehensive resistance," Lim Hyun-taek, who heads the KMA, said.
The latest collective action came after the government finalised the admission quota hike of some 1,500 for medical schools late last month, marking the first such increase in 27 years.
About 12,000 trainee doctors at general hospitals have left their worksites in protest of the government's decision to raise the number of medical school seats, causing disruptions in services at major hospitals.
In an apparent effort to persuade trainee doctors to return to hospitals, the government has recently allowed them to seek jobs at other medical clinics or go back to their training hospitals by withdrawing a return-to-work order and suspending administrative steps to punish them, news agency IANS reported.
But junior doctors were mostly seen as reluctant to return to their worksites despite the gesture.
Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported that the South Korean government appears to have adjusted its strategy amidst an ongoing standoff with major doctors' associations, backing away from punitive measures against striking trainee doctors and scaling back plans to increase medical school admission quotas.
Also Read:South Korea Doctors Strike: PM again urges medical professors to stay with patients
Kajal joined Medical Dialogue in 2019 for the Latest Health News. She has done her graduation from the University of Delhi. She mainly covers news about the Latest Healthcare. She can be contacted at editorial@medicaldialogues.in.