2024-04-08 19:00:30
He Deputy Minister of Health and Social Welfare South Korea’s Park Min-soo has said that a change in the size of the government’s plan to increase the number of medical school enrollments “is not physically impossible,” indicating that there might be a possibility of adjusting the number. , despite a “very difficult situation.”
Park’s comments came following South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol met with one of the leaders of the trainee doctors and promised to “respect” his stance on the government’s medical reform effort, including the plan to increase, by 2,000 places, the capacity of medical schools.
So far, some 12,000 doctors in training across the country have abandoned their jobs since February 20 to protest the plan to increase, by 2,000 places, the number of medical schools next year, overloading increasingly public health services.
The South Korean government had shown few signs of being open to adjusting the size of the increase in the number of PhDs, and had already allocated admission quotas to universities. The allocation was seen as a strong sign that the Government would not back down.
However, Park said there would be “more confusion” if the government cut the number. According to the minister, it is a “very difficult situation, actually.” It is not physically impossible to change seats before admission guidelines for new students are finalized. In South Korea, universities generally complete their admission guidelines by the end of May.
Earlier in the day, Health Minister Cho Kyoo-hong also appeared to leave open the possibility of adjusting the size of the increase in medical school admissions.
Cho told a government response meeting that they intend to engage in candid discussions with the medical community to persuade them and resolve the dispute. He added that if the doctors develop a more reasonable and unified proposal, based on scientific criteria and logic, the Government can discuss it openly.
The reform plan has emerged as a hot issue in this week’s parliamentary elections, in which the ruling People’s Power Party (PPP) seeks to regain a majority in the National Assembly.
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