Health

Gov't vows not to backtrack increased medical school admission quotas despite doctors' walkout

The government's ongoing push for medical reform is for the people, and it cannot be subject to negotiations, the health ministry said Friday, effectively rejecting the medical community's call for modifying the state plan to markedly raise medical school enrollment quota.

Mar 29, 2024

Gov't vows not to backtrack increased medical school admission quotas despite doctors' walkout

ILO asks Seoul for opinion on petition from striking trainee doctors

More women than men think about taking own lives: health ministry report

More women than men think about suicide and actually attempt to take their own lives due mainly to economic pressures and psychological problems, according to a report released by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, Thursday.

Mar 28, 2024By Jun Ji-hye

More women than men think about taking own lives: health ministry report

Korea seeks to halve HIV infections by 2030

Health authorities in Korea have formulated countermeasures against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections, aiming to reduce the number by half the current level by the end of 2030.

Mar 28, 2024By Jun Ji-hye

Korea seeks to halve HIV infections by 2030

Number of new HIV cases falls 5.7% in 2023: KDCA

New chief of doctors' group expected to step up protest against gov't

Protests by the doctors’ community against the Yoon Suk Yeol administration’s planned medical school admissions quota hike are expected to intensify as the Korea Medical Association (KMA), the country’s biggest coalition of physicians, elected a new leader who has taken a firm stance against the policy.

Mar 27, 2024By Jun Ji-hye

New chief of doctors' group expected to step up protest against gov't

Yoon urges professors to persuade trainee doctors to end walkout

President Yoon Suk Yeol urged professors at medical schools to persuade trainee doctors to end their walkout and is continuing calls for dialogue to resolve the month-long standoff between the government and doctors over the enrollment quota of medical schools, Tuesday.

Mar 26, 2024By Nam Hyun-woo

Yoon urges professors to persuade trainee doctors to end walkout

PM vows active dialogue with medical community amid doctors' strike

Prime Minister Han Duck-soo pledged active dialogue with the medical community Tuesday to find a negotiated settlement to the protracted walkout by trainee doctors protesting the government's decision to significantly increase medical school admissions.

Mar 26, 2024

PM vows active dialogue with medical community amid doctors' strike

Gov't to complete follow-up measures for increased admission quotas at medical schools by May

Gov't to complete follow-up measures for increased admission quotas at medical schools by May

The government will complete follow-up measures for increased enrollment quotas at medical schools by May, a senior official said Tuesday, in a fresh sign that the government will not back down from the reform push despite a fierce protest by the medical community.

Mar 26, 2024

Gov't to complete follow-up measures for increased admission quotas at medical schools by May

Difficulties remain for government-doctors dialogue

The government is attempting to hold talks with the doctors' community over the prolonged walkout by trainee doctors protesting against its plan to hike the quota of medical school students starting next year. But it seems unlikely for the two sides to reach a breakthrough anytime soon due to their clearly different positions.

Mar 25, 2024By Jun Ji-hye

Difficulties remain for government-doctors dialogue

President, PPP head show united stance to address doctors' walkout before elections

Patients' anxieties grow as medical professors submit resignations en masse

Patients and families voiced growing anxieties that the already serious disruptions in hospital operations could worsen further as medical professors nationwide began submitting resignations en masse on Monday in support of a mass walkout by trainee doctors.

Mar 25, 2024

Patients' anxieties grow as medical professors submit resignations en masse

PPP leader says potential gov't-doctors talks could be 'new starting point' in resolving prolonged walkout

Yoon instructs PM to communicate more closely with medical community

President Yoon Suk Yeol instructed Prime Minister Han Duck-soo on Monday to communicate more closely with the medical community regarding the government's medical reform plans, his spokesperson said.