South Korean President Yoon visits Seoul Asan Hospital and talks with medical staff... ``I want you to convince your juniors.''

South Korean President Yoon Seo-gyeol visited Seoul Asan Hospital on the 18th and had a meeting with medical staff. President Yoon urged the medical staff not to insist on increasing the number of personnel, but to look ahead to the future.
He called for dialogue and persuasion from his juniors, saying, ``I want them to believe in the government and engage in dialogue.'' In the morning of the same day, President Yoon visited the pediatric ward and saw where seriously ill children were being treated.
Inspection. According to Presidential Office Spokesperson Kim Soo-kyung, this is the first time this has happened since medical reform measures were announced in February of this year.
President Yoon visited the hospital school in the pediatric hematology and oncology ward and volunteered.
He expressed his gratitude to the teachers in A and talked about his own experience, saying, ``When I was little, I visited a friend who had been in the hospital for a long time and taught him the contents of the class.''
President Yoon asked the name and grade of a child hospitalized for brain tumor treatment with chemotherapy, and said, ``The teachers are taking good care of me, so I'm going to get back to school right away.''
It'll get better. You can do a good job," he said. He also shook hands with the child's mother and encouraged her, saying, ``Please do your best.'' President Yoon met with the hospital director and other related parties. President Yoon is medical
He shook hands with Jin and said, ``On behalf of the people, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to you for your efforts in the field of essential medical care, including pediatrics and adolescents, obstetrics and gynecology, for the sake of patients under difficult circumstances.'' Stated.
The medical staff said, ``Given permission for military doctors who are planning to return to full-time practice to return to work early,'' ``The need to resolve the shortage of human resources in the field of pediatric care and make fundamental improvements to the growing deficit structure,'' and ``the need to improve the number of children in pediatric surgery.'' of
``Need to establish severity evaluation standards tailored to characteristics'', ``Realization of the number of high-risk deliveries due to the increase in the number of high-risk pregnant women'', ``Support for fetal care centers'', ``Nurses' duties'' range control
He proposed "extreme clarification." President Yoon promised prompt implementation of the proposals, and also expressed the need for medical reform and asked for the cooperation of the medical community to complete the reform. Especially after discharge, as a full-time doctor,
The military medical officer who is scheduled to return to the hospital was instructed to take immediate measures to ensure that he can continue working at the hospital even before discharge. In addition, regarding medical fees, ``Last year, the government
We have already increased the compensation for support measures, but we are currently considering raising it further to include not only initial examinations but also re-examinations.'' President Yoon said, ``Essential medical care and critical care that protects the health and lives of the people''
``The public safety is as important as national security,'' and added, ``Just as we must not waste the funds we use for national security, we must also spare no budget for the lives of our people.'' In particular, advanced general diseases
The government plans to establish a reliable compensation system for the hospital's treatment of critically ill patients. Regarding expanding the capacity of medical schools, it is essential to expand the number of medical human resources in order to respond to the steadily increasing medical demand due to the aging of the population.
he emphasized. He also said, ``There is an opinion that the increase in personnel should be carried out in stages. However, it would be better if the increase could be carried out in stages over a long period of time, but past governments have been unable to take this step due to political risks.
``It's too late,'' and persuaded him, ``I don't think I can go through this kind of pain every time.'' President Yoon said, ``The decline in the quality of medical care that doctors are worried about is
We will make sure that this does not happen again.'' He added, ``Doctors and nurses who know the field best should give their opinions on what areas are lacking and what needs to be improved in order to complete medical reform.'' Teho
"Yes," he asked.