The government accuses 10 doctors of returning … Medical Association “Indefinite strike from the 7th of next month”

The government is accusing … On the 28th, at the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency in Jongno-gu, Seoul, Kim Hyun-sook, head of the Medical Resources Policy Division of the Ministry of Health and Welfare (right), files a complaint against 10 people who they specialized in violation of the order of the Ministry of Health and Welfare to start work. Newsis

On the 28th, 10 top doctors (interns, residents) who had violated the government order to start commercial activities were charged with violating medical law. The Korean Medical Association (Medical Association), which held the second general strike for three days to this day, decided to proceed with an indefinite general strike on the 7th of next month.

On the 28th, the Vice Minister of Health and Welfare, Kim Gang-rip, held a ‘special briefing on the response to the collective action of doctors’ and said: “On the 26th, 10 people who did not comply with the order of go to work were filed against senior and full-time doctors in the metropolitan area. ” Revealed. The government also plans to continue administrative proceedings against 11 full-time people who violate the order. Along with this, it was decided to extend the order to begin working for the doctors participating in the strike from the metropolitan area to the entire country and to initiate field investigations in 30 large hospitals.

According to the quarantine authorities, the total number of doctors and full-time physicians for whom the order to start operations has been issued is 281. As of the 26th, the Ministry of Social Welfare carried out on-site investigations to confirm compliance with the commercial opening order. After the order to start work, 77 of the older people who took part in the strike returned to the medical field.

The government also predicted a greater legal response to organized fighting in the medical field. Senior and full-time physicians are resigning as a group against the government’s order to start their activities. Mobile phones are also turned off to prevent government orders from being passed on to people. Deputy Justice Minister Koki-young said: “Even if you submit a resignation letter as part of a group action, you can give an order to start work, and actively encourage or encourage refusal of an order to start work can be punished by teachers or attendance in violation of medical law. ” .

The medical agreement is a backlash On the 28th, the third day of the Korean Medical Association strike, the chairman of the Choi Medical Association (right) held a press conference in front of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency in Jongno-gu, Seoul, and requested an interview. with the Commissioner of the Police Agency. Newsis

On the 28th, the medical community held a meeting of the ‘Special Committee to Combat the Four Big Bad in Pan-Medical Science’ (the Pan-Two Committee) and decided to initiate a general strike indefinitely from the 7th of next month. . In the discussion, former physicians participated, including the president of the Choi Medical Association, Ji-Hyun Park, president of the Korean Medical Association, and Jin-Hyun Baek, president of the Metropolitan Medical Association. The Bumtoo Committee plans to form a legal support team in the future to initiate relief for defendants and full-time physicians. President Choi visited the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency that day and said, “The government cracked down on young doctors in their twenties who could not be held responsible. It was a situation that caused tremendous anger to the 130,000 doctors, ”he said. The staggered strikes by university hospital professors are also visible. On the 28th, Dean Yoo Dae-Hyun of Yonsei University School of Medicine issued an emergency letter and said: “The Ministry of Welfare has charged 10 senior citizens who participated in the strike, including the oldest from Severance Hospital. Teachers can no longer ignore this tyranny of the Ministry of Health and Welfare. “In the future, we will prepare a robust response by reducing all medical treatments except emergency rooms, intensive care units and crown-related treatments, staged strikes and the submission of teacher resignations.”

As the medical staff strike drags on, hospitals unable to receive new patients continue. St. Mary Hospital in Seocho-gu, Seoul, has yet to take in most of the new internal medicine patients on the 26th. This is because the management of existing inpatients is the top priority. Chungbuk National University Hospital also began not accepting new patients from 26 of the 9 internal medicine departments, including cardiology, endocrine medicine and respiratory medicine. When physicians, such as seniors and full-time physicians, left the clinic, a setback occurred in the internal medicine outpatient clinic, accounting for about 40% of the hospital’s total treatment.

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