Experts say that one of the South Korean medical system’s biggest problems is that many doctors are concentrated in the Seoul metropolitan area leading to access issues in rural areas. — AFP picSEOUL, March 19 — South Korea has suspended the medical licences of two doctors, the Korean Medical Association said today, in the first punitive action over a month-long strike that has caused healthcare chaos.
Two officials from the Korean Medical Association, which has been heavily involved in the walkout, were informed yesterday that their licenses had been suspended for three months, purportedly for instigating the strike.“The two officials, Kim Taek-woo and Park Myung-ha, received the notice yesterday,” spokesperson Lee Seok-young told AFP.
“The government deeply regrets the current situation where even professors are considering resigning following the footsteps of trainees,” second Vice Health Minister Park Min-soo told reporters told reporters Tuesday. President Yoon Suk-yeol today said the reforms were necessary, and lamented the fierce opposition from physicians.
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