Government to Deploy Military Doctors to Augment ER’s in South Korea
This seems like a logical thing for the government to do in response to the strike by Korean doctors:
Second Vice Health Minister Park Min-soo enters the venue of a briefing held in Seoul on Sept. 2, 2024. (Yonhap)
The health ministry said Monday it plans to deploy military physicians to hospital emergency rooms amid growing concerns over a possible disruption of emergency care during the Chuseok holiday due to a prolonged walkout by junior doctors.
Second Vice Health Minister Park Min-soo told reporters the government would send some 250 military and public health doctors to cope with emergency care before and after the holiday that runs from Sept. 14 through 18.
“We are reinforcing the staff by utilizing military and public doctors, while recruiting nurses and contract doctors,” Park said.
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