2023-05-03 07:20:20
‘I’m sorry that the nursing assistants attended the meeting and inevitably caused inconvenience to medical support.’
On the 3rd, when some nursing assistants and doctors went on a partial strike in opposition to the Nursing Act passed by the National Assembly, a banner was hung on a signboard inside a family medicine department in Yangcheon-gu, Seoul. Three nursing assistants working here were away to attend the rally that day, and from 4:30 pm to 8:00 pm, the director alone received medical treatment and treated patients.
The director said, “We put up a banner because we thought it would be inconvenient for regarding 30 to 40 patients to come during this time,” he said. “We also do not want to cause inconvenience to patients. However, we cannot just watch the passage of the Nursing Act, which wreaks havoc on the medical system,” he said.
A surgeon in Gangbuk-gu also advanced its treatment hours from 9:00 pm to 4:00 pm. While the nursing assistant and director attended the meeting, they inevitably did not accept reservations following 4:00 p.m., and at the entrance of the clinic, a notice saying ‘shortened treatment only until 4:00 p.m.’ and a promotional material pointing out the problems of the nursing law were attached. An orthopedic surgeon in Nowon-gu did not treat or treat patients following lunch, but only prescribed medicine.
There were some inconveniences, such as turning away following visiting a hospital or clinic that shortened treatment, or delaying treatment reception and payment due to a nursing assistant’s annual leave, but there was no major confusion. In addition, treatment at university hospitals and large hospitals was carried out as usual.
The Health and Welfare Medical Solidarity (Medical Solidarity), in which 13 health and medical organizations, including the Korean Medical Association and the Korean Association of Nursing Assistants, participated, was held on this day in front of the National Assembly in Yeouido, Seoul, and other parts of the country following an annual leave or shortened treatment period, with the Democratic Party of Korea to enforce the Nursing Act and License Deprivation Act. held a protest rally.
The Nursing Act, which passed the plenary session of the National Assembly on the 27th of last month, separates the nursing-related content from the current Medical Act. contains this
However, doctors protested, saying that the provision that ‘this law stipulates necessary matters so that all citizens can receive high-quality nursing benefits in medical institutions and communities’ will lead to private practice without doctor guidance and an increase in nurses’ unlicensed surgeries and prescriptions. there is. Nursing assistants are concerned regarding the fact that unlike the current law, it will be impossible to hire a nursing assistant without a nurse in community facilities other than medical institutions such as long-term care institutions. Other occupational workers, such as clinical pathologists, radiographers, and caregivers, are also concerned that nurses may invade their work areas. The Korean Nursing Association is in the position that “the Nursing Act does not infringe or deny the realm of other occupations.”
Medical workers who participated in the partial strike were also concerned that the Nursing Act would bring confusion to the medical community. “Nurses receive preferential treatment under the Nursing Act, but nurse assistants feel threatened for their right to live,” said a director of family medicine who participated in the strike following only providing medical treatment in the morning. said.
The medical solidarity plans to launch a second annual leave struggle in the same way on the 11th. It also demands that the president exercise his veto right before the 17th, when the general strike was announced. If a general strike actually takes place, there is a possibility that not only local clinics but also university hospital residents and full-time doctors will join the strike, so confusion in the medical field is inevitable. The director of a urology department in Gangnam-gu said, “I plan to shorten the treatment period on the 11th and attend the rally.”
Reporters Hong In-ki and Kim Joo-yeon
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