S. Korean trainee doctors walk off job over medical school slots
South Korean trainee doctors walked off the job from Tuesday (Feb 20) in a move set to slow the delivery of health care, in protest of a government plan to drastically increase spots at medical schools to reverse a shortage of physicians.
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00:00 More than 1,600 trainee doctors at major hospitals in South Korea staged a walkout on Tuesday.
00:09 They are protesting against a government plan to increase the number of students admitted
00:13 to medical schools.
00:14 They argue that admitting more students could lead to unnecessary medical procedures and
00:19 strain the finances of the National Health Insurance Plan.
00:24 President Yun Suk-yol's administration aims to alleviate the country's severe doctor shortage,
00:29 one of the worst among developed nations, by raising the number of medical school slots
00:33 by 2,000 next year, from the current 3,058.
00:38 This initiative seeks to provide medical professionals to more regions and specialize in more fields,
00:43 addressing the needs of a country facing a demographic crisis with one of the world's
00:48 fastest aging populations.
00:50 Representatives for the doctors held an emergency meeting in the capital Seoul to discuss their
00:55 next steps, although their agenda remains unclear.
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