President Yoon: ``Add 2,000 people to medical schools, placing them mainly in non-metropolitan areas...Do not use medical licenses as a means to threaten the people.''

South Korean President Yoon Seo-gyeol announced on the 19th that ``2,000 more students will be allocated to medical schools next year, mainly to medical schools in non-metropolitan areas, to strengthen essential medical care in the regions.''
Ta. President Yoon presided over a State Council meeting at the presidential office in Yongsan this morning and said, ``The longer we delay the increase in personnel, the more the damage will be felt by all the people.''
President Yoon stated that medical reform is a mandate from the people, saying, ``The medical license granted to protect the lives of the people must not be used as a means to intimidate and cause anxiety to the people.
No,” he pointed out. It seems that the criticism came in response to the fact that major doctors (residents) who opposed the increase in the number of medical school students have left the field one after another since last month, and even medical school professors have been resigning en masse.
It will be done. President Yoon said, ``The government sent a message to Kumon in January this year to ask medical associations and professional medical organizations to give their opinions on the appropriate size of increase in the number of doctors, but the medical organizations did not submit any opinions, and there is a shortage of doctors.
``If the people of Japan have to worry every year about their doctor's appearance, can we call this a sane country?'' he asked.
He added, ``I hope that medical organizations, including specialized doctors, will also participate, and that we will work together to create concrete implementation plans for medical reform through discussion rather than fighting outside the hospital.''
"We have held public welfare debates, and we will continue to hold medical reform debates in the form of civil welfare debates that we personally preside over."