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Trainee doctors to continue strike against gov't healthcare reform policies

2020-08-31 8 Dailymotion

전공의 첫투표선 과반수 못얻어 '부결'…재투표서 파업 계속<br /><br />South Korea's trainee doctors have vowed to continue their strike in protest against the government's plans for healthcare reform.<br />The Korean Intern Resident Association made the announcement Sunday following a vote at an overnight meeting of its emergency committee.<br />The announcement comes after the National Assembly proposed a deal for doctors to return to work, in exchange for them conditionally backing the government's healthcare reforms until COVID-19 stabilizes and then renegotiating later.<br />The doctors claim the conditional proposal shows the government does not have a willingness to resolve the fundamental cause of the dispute.<br />Doctors and trainees are opposed to the government's plan to train thousands more doctors and open new public medical schools.<br />

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