South Korea is deploying military and other physicians to strike-hit hospitals amid a walkout by nearly 12,000 trainee doctors over planned medical reforms.
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea planned to start deploying military physicians and doctors from public health centers to strike-hit hospitals on Monday to help care for patients affected by the walkout of nearly 12,000 trainee doctors from 100 hospitals over government reform plans. Twenty military surgeons along with 138 public health doctors will be assigned to 20 hospitals for four weeks, Health Minister Cho Kyoo-hong said at a meeting on Sunday.
South Korean officials have been trying to coax the doctors to return to work by warning them that their medical licenses could be suspended but so far appear to have had little success with the tactic. The health ministry said notices had been sent to more than 4,900 doctors as of Friday to instruct them that the authorities could start suspending licenses if they did not explain their action.
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