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| ▲ Press conference Representatives of civil society labor organizations held a press conference in front of the Blue House fountain on the 4th, criticizing the party’s government, medical consultations, and political agreements for keeping them secret. | |
| Ⓒ Kim Cheol-gwan |
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176 civil society labor organizations, including the Korean Federation of Trade Unions, the Korean Federation of Trade Unions, the KCTU and the Civil Society Association, condemned the political agreements of the Democratic Party and the government and the Korean Medical Association as “an agreement closed that ignores the people. “
These groups held an emergency press conference in front of the Blue House fountain in Seoul at 11 am on the 4th, saying, “The government must listen to the voices of citizens, not medical advice” and “condemn the transaction. of the ward closed for giving up public health care. “
Through a press conference, he said: “After negotiating with the ruling government party and the medical association on the progress of public health policy, they actually declared the abandonment of public health reform,” he said. “The government and the ruling party finally stepped back from the hostage game of doctors.”
“In a situation where the entire society is doing everything possible to overcome the unprecedented infectious disease crisis, at the expense of sacrifice and patience, a medical group has performed an unethical act of group permission to sacrifice life and the safety of citizens and protect their vested interests. “
Park Seok-woon, the Progressive Solidarity representative, who made a comment, said: “The national public power has surrendered without force to the monstrous group of the Medical Association, which prides itself on its ethics and public interest.” I cannot leave It is decided by a group of those who show the same level. “
“The ruling ruling party should also be criticized for kneeling before these groups through close discussions,” he said. “To overcome the terrible and terrible situation, the sovereign people must come forward.”
Lee Bora, co-chair of the Humanitarian Practitioner Council, said: “The issue of strengthening public health is directly related to people’s health, and people and civic groups must discuss and agree together.” “She reflected on the neglect of public health policy that attracted the government. She urged:” We need to work with civil society organizations from now on to expand public hospitals, recruit public medical personnel and strengthen public medical systems. “
“The plan to expand physicians and establish a public medical school is a matter of an agreement between the workers and the administration to overcome the Corona 19 crisis,” said Park Ki-young, general secretary of the Korean Union. “Said.
Lee Chan-jin, Executive Chairman of Participation Solidarity, said: “The agreement between the National Assembly and the ruling party, the medical council and the government on the policies of expanding public health is a secret agreement.” Reflect the overall business budget for expansion and immediately begin to normalize public health, “he said.
“If the government gives in to doctors who collectively reject treatment even though the doctors do not represent the medical field, medical policy will continue to be influenced by them.” Government policy, which is not visible and focuses only on the medical marketing industry, must be reformed, securing public hospitals and intensive care units, insuring hospital staff and improving working conditions for hospital workers.
Park Min-sook, vice president of the medical and health union, said: “The issue of expanding the doctor’s workforce goes beyond the problem of doctor groups and affects public health rights and health policy in general. He stressed that the tasks of health reform, such as medical expansion, must be implemented on a large scale. “
Lee Tae-ho, chairman of the operations committee of the Federation of Civil Society Organizations, which held a press conference, criticized that “I oppose secret battles to the exclusion of the public” and that “we cannot see only the statement of surrender of the government that surrendered to the strongest in the medical field. “
On this day, Kim Gyeong-min, general secretary of the Korean YMCA Federation, and Lee Sang-jin, vice president of the KCTU, read the press conference.
Participants in the press conference raised hand signals such as ▲ strengthen public health care ▲ condemn secret transactions ▲ hear the voice of the public.
The following is the full text of the press conference.
He condemned the closed-door transaction between the party government and the medical council for renouncing public medical care!
The ruling party in government should prepare a proper plan to increase doctors and expand public hospitals!
After negotiating with the ruling government party and the Korean Medical Association on the progress of public health policy, they declared the abandonment of public health reform. The government and the ruling party finally stepped back on the hostages of the doctors.
The government has reached a near white flag agreement without any step forward in public medical reform in a situation where citizens are facing a serious crisis due to unprecedented infectious disease, and the expansion of medical personnel and Public health reform are more urgent than ever. I strongly condemn the ruling party.
Furthermore, to overcome the unprecedented infectious disease crisis, a group of doctors took an unethical act of group leave to protect their vested interests while sacrificing the lives and safety of citizens in a situation where all of society is doing everything possible with sacrifice and patience. In short, to protect their interests, they strongly condemn the medical agreement that maintained the foothold to expand medical advertising and inform discussions about reform.
When discussing public health policies directly related to the health and safety of citizens, we can never accept the declaration of waiver of public health care requested by the group of doctors, which is an interest group.
The lessons learned from the unprecedented crisis of Corona 19 are clear. It is said that successful quarantine and treatment cannot be achieved without strengthening public health care. Furthermore, as the Moon Jae-in administration professed, strengthening public health to improve serious inequalities and medical gaps in the metropolitan area and localities is a task that cannot be waived.
The labor and civil society groups gathered here today will firmly reject today’s controversy in the closed room, and will advance in the reform of public health directly related to the health and life of sovereign citizens, and in the strengthening of public health in health care.
September 4, 2020
176 labor and civil society organizations
