Medical professors at Seoul National University (SNU) said Monday that striking trainee doctors will not return to work if the government sticks to the current medical reform plans, calling for a “transparent and reasonable” policy push.
The emergency response committee of SNU professors, who serve as senior doctors at SNU hospitals, made the appeal during a press conference in Seoul, as the government set a deadline Monday for the striking doctors to return to hospitals.
“The government has vowed to withdraw its plan of implementing punitive administrative steps and to give a special favor regarding their training. But such measures will not convince them to return to work,” the committee said.
“The strike came in protest of the government’s unilateral push for unreasonable policy measures, but such measures have remained unchanged,” it added.
More than 90 percent of around 13,000 junior doctors walked off their jobs in February in the form of resignations against the government’s plan to sharply raise medical school admissions.
The government has demanded that hospitals complete accepting their resignations by Monday, while vowing not to suspend the medical licenses of the 추천 strikers, regardless of whether they return to hospitals or not, and offering special measures for returnees on their training and earning specialist licenses.
But a majority of the doctors have not budged an inch, according to officials.
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