About 90 per cent of South Korea’s trainee doctors failed to report to work by the end of a February deadline set by the government.to thousands of doctors who have walked off their jobs in protest at a government plan to increase medical school enrolment.
President Yoon Suk-yeol has stood by his plan to increase enrolment by 2,000 seats a year at medical schools from the current 3,058. The notices are part of the procedure for suspending the licences of thousands of trainee doctors for three months for defying the return-to-work order, a move that could set them back on their career paths and affect employment prospects.
Polling indicates the public is siding with the government, seeing the reform as a way to cut waiting times for health care.
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