In regards of South Korean doctors, a media article and a doctors’ organisation reported on Saturday, a colleague has been taken into custody for ‘forming a faction’ against dissenting colleagues who refuse to join a starvation strike over changes to training policies.
The conflict has now claimed its first trainee doctor in over six months and it has stirred up more rather than helped calm down the impasse that the ‘boycott’ of junior doctors over the issue has persisted at the expense of some emergency patients’ lives.
On Friday, South Korean authorities said the physician was detained for creating what they termed a “Data Document” containing information on colleagues who were “scabbed* or those who abandoned the strike and gradually distributing it via Telegram, Telegram, Facebook, etc., with malicious intentions,” according to Yonhap News Agency.
Saturday, the president of the Korean Medical Association KMA at that time was in a police station in seoul with the detained trainee. Afterwards, she spoke with an interview saying that the government caused the problem.
‘It is my conviction that all those whose names appeared on the so-called black list including the arrested trainee doctor is also a culprit. About two dozens KMA head Lim Hyun-taek skiren reports.’
He was detained on stalking its victims as the reports say that he had stalked and even disclosed some of the victims’ information without their consent such as their phone numbers and their schools like Yonhap.
In February thousands of postgraduate student doctors went on strike in protest against government proposals to increase the capacity for medical students to be trained in order to resolve the existing deficit of physicians.
It has compelled a large number of patients who would have undergone treatment such as chemotherapy or surgeries like hysterectomy to abandon such courses, leading to a nationwide shortage of personnel in ER units.
The Cabinet approved a medical school enrollment increase of about 1500 placements in 2025 on May, arguing it would help solve shortage of services as the population ages rapidly.
They remain firm that if the plan was ever to be executed, then the plan should be totally settled, as the domestic restructuring would degrade the quality of care and education.
Those who opposed the protest claim that it is only a move to defend their income and position in society.
This plan had had broad acceptance among the public until the mass work stoppage led to extended disturbances in the medical care system of the country provoking increased degrees of anxiety amongst the populace.
Like in any other country, South Korea’s general hospitals make use of the interns and residents during emergency procedure and surgical interventions.
