2024-05-06 11:05:21
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After the Seoul High Court asked the government to submit supporting documents and meeting minutes for the decision to increase the number of medical students by 2,000, controversy exists over whether the meetings involved must record reports.
Some medical circles have decided to denounce the Minister and Deputy Minister of Health and Social Welfare as well as the Ministry of Education to the Public Corruption Investigation Bureau, claiming that failure to register the minutes of a meeting to decide major policies is a “dereliction of duty.” »
This is reporter Park So-hee.
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Regarding the government’s policy to increase the number of medical students by 2,000 students, the medical community has repeatedly highlighted the issue of meeting minutes, among other procedural issues.
Jeong Geun-young, former director of Bundang Cha Medical Center, announced that he would report five people, including the ministers and vice-ministers of the Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Ministry of Education, to the Bureau of criminal investigation by senior officials. tomorrow followingnoon.
Since the relevant law enforcement ordinance stipulates that meetings to coordinate opinions on major policies involving a deputy minister level or above must keep minutes, failure to hold a trial -meeting minutes constitute a breach of duty.
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“The fact that such things were not written in a meeting involving high-ranking officials inevitably raises the fundamental question of whether we should actually trust and follow these political decisions…”
The main committees run by the government while promoting the policy to increase the number of medical students by 2,000 were largely the Health and Medical Policy Deliberation Committee, the Medical Matters Council and the Committee allocation of quotas for medical faculties.
However, the Ministry of Health and Welfare stated that “the minutes of the Health and Medical Policy Deliberation Committee will be faithfully submitted to the court”, but explained that “the meeting of the Medical Matters Council was was made public through a press release and follow-up. briefing in consultation with the Medical Association.
There was no need to take meeting minutes.
Furthermore, the existence of minutes of the meeting of the quota allocation committee for medical faculties of the Ministry of Education, controversial because the list of evaluators was not even made public, was not not been confirmed.
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“How can there be no data to develop medical plans? It’s like creating a country without fundamentals. We plan to respond with separate civil and criminal charges once morest those who have promoted baseless policies. »
In response to this, an official from the Ministry of Education said: “We cannot confirm the existence of related documents”, but said: “We will faithfully submit them to the court.”
On the 30th of last month, the Seoul High Court had asked the government to submit the basis for the 2,000 increase and the minutes of the meeting by the 10th during an appeal hearing on the suspension of medical school expansion.
This is Park So-hee from MBC News.
Video editing: Jeong Ji-young
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