”Reduced work hours for university medical school professors 'regrettably'... Prepare measures for tertiary emergency treatment” - South Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare

South Korea's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (equivalent to Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare) has expressed "regret" over the teaser that professors at university medical schools, who opposed the government's push to increase the number of university medical faculty members, would reduce their medical services starting in April.
The government announced on the 31st that it has decided to further strengthen emergency medical care measures. Professor emergency response committee of 20 universities, including Seoul University School of Medicine, gathered together.
After a meeting on the 30th, the association agreed that, ``As of the first of next month, we will not work during the daytime the next day after working 24 hours a day, and that we will not be able to treat serious or emergency patients in accordance with these working conditions.'' maintenance
We have decided to coordinate outpatient and surgical procedures at each training hospital in order to maintain the same level of health." Prior to this, the National Council of Professors of University School of Medicine, another university medical school faculty association, also announced that they would be offering outpatient treatment starting from the 25th.
The company announced that it will reduce working hours for surgeries and inpatient treatment to the legal working hours of 52 hours a week, and from the 1st of next month, it will minimize outpatient treatment and focus on treating seriously ill and emergency patients.
In response, the Ministry of Health and Welfare held the 25th Physician Collective Action Central Accident Settlement Headquarters meeting in the afternoon of the same day, presided over by Minister Cho Gyu-heon, and discussed the current operational status of the emergency medical treatment system and doctors.
We inspected the current status of collective actions. At the Ministry of Health and Welfare, Minister Cho Kyu-heon has inspected the operational status of emergency rooms and intensive care units more closely, further strengthening the secondary emergency treatment measures announced last month3.
He explained that he was instructed to prepare the following measures. Minister Cho Gyu-heon said, ``The government has proposed ``5 major issues for implementing the 4 major healthcare reform challenges'' as priority investment directions for next year's budget, and
It is unfortunate that the medical community has not responded to our proposal to engage in dialogue with the medical community," he said, urging the medical community to actively engage in dialogue.