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<KHMU newsletter 13> The KHMU Launches a Struggle for Public Medical Service and to Strengthen the Public Nature of Medical Services.

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The KHMU Launches a Struggle for Public Medical Service and to Strengthen the Public Nature of Medical Services.

 

On Sep. 8, the KHMU held a press conference before the National Assembly building to denounce the ruling Minju Party and the Ministry of Health and Welfare for their agreement with the association of doctors.

 

The Union defined the agreement as “Hasty Collusion between Doctors and the Government,” which nullified the plan for public medical schools and increasing the number of doctors, blaming it for turning away from majority of Korean people’s wishes.

In addition, it declared that from the day, it would get into a joint-action nationwide with the labor community and civil society.

 

As part of the joint actions, one-person protest takes place in such places as the National Assembly and the Blue House with virtual protests going on in parallel. Plus, the national petition for ‘cancel the agreement, beef up the public medical services, innovate health system with participation of citizens’ will begin online at the Petition Board at the Blue House.

 

For the background, over the recent weeks, medical doctors had been refusing to see patients, which is an illegal collective action, showing their intention to oppose an increase in medical students and establishment of the National Public Medical School.

 

Their collective actions continued to develop and finally on August 21, around 16,000 residents and interns, that is, most of the members of the Korean Intern Resident Association actively joined forces in the refusal action.

More frustratingly, residents working for emergency rooms, ICUs and other units that are directly serving for patient’s lives also participated in the No-Work protest.

 

They insisted that the government should nullify the four policy plans, the core of which are to increase the number of medical students and to establish public medical schools. As per the policy plan, the government will increase the number of medical students by 400 every year from 2020 to 2030, with the first year of the change, 2020, seeing 3,458 students, up from the current 3,058. But then, doctors began to oppose it and launched the collective action, refusing to see patients. Finally, they won to have the government sign the agreement that accepts most of demands by doctors and promises that the discussion will begin again from the scratch.

 

The KHMU and most of the civil society groups criticize the doctor’s community for selfish collectivism and the government for waiving the white flag to surrender to one single interest group.


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