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The government will officially launch a boarding camp program offering rehabilitation for teenagers addicted to drugs in the latter half of the year, the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family said Tuesday.
Both the government and doctors are showing subtle changes to their positions amid the protracted confrontation over the medical school quota hike policy, raising cautious expectations that a breakthrough in the ongoing health care standoff caused by the nationwide walkout of trainee doctors could be reached in the near future.
The government needs to create jobs for 894,000 more people in the next decade to tackle the economic slowdown that is widely attributed to the country's population decline.
The Ministry of Personnel Management is committed to formulating family-friendly policies concerning public personnel management to lessen the burden of an increasing number of working parents who have to juggle work and child care, according to Minister Kim Seung-ho.
The government and the medical community hold highly divergent views on whether a back-to-work order imposed on striking trainee doctors, protesting a medical school quota hike policy, violates international labor standards.
Medical professors across the country are threatening to tender their resignations en masse as doctors continue to resist the government's plans to increase medical school enrollment quotas to address an apparent shortage of physicians in rural regions.
The government on Monday began deploying 158 military and public health doctors to hospitals affected by a nationwide walkout staged by thousands of trainee doctors, in a bid to make up for the shortage of medical staff and minimize disruptions to medical services.
The poverty rate of older adults in Korea, which had been on the decline in previous years, regressed in 2022, raising concerns over related issues, such as diminished access to health care.
The government is planning to make the most use of physician assistant (PA) nurses — unique to Korea’s medical field — to cope with disruptions to medical services caused by a nationwide walkout by thousands of trainee doctors in protest against the government policy to increase the number of medical students next year.
Rep. Lee Jae-myung, the chairman of the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea (DPK), came in first in a poll on potential presidential candidates for the 2027 race, boasting unabated support from liberal voters despite the ongoing risk stemming from various criminal allegations against him.