Professors at Chungbuk National University Hospital withdraw from outpatient treatment...``The hospital is completely bankrupt''

Professors at Chungbuk National University Hospital, the only advanced general hospital in the Chungcheongbuk-do region of South Korea, have announced that they will suspend medical treatment from the 5th, instead of providing 52 hours of legal medical care per week.
Bae Jang-hwan, chairman of the emergency response committee of the university hospital and medical faculty, said at an open site at the university's medical faculty facilities on the 1st, "In the case of 52 hours of legal medical treatment per week, it is necessary to leave the hospital a little earlier to treat patients.
"It's complicated, and we've decided to stop providing medical care starting this Friday," he said. "If we provide medical care for 52 hours a week, the hospital will go completely bankrupt," he said.
"When you look at it from the perspective of the hospital itself, it is basically impossible for the hospital to maintain the legal 52-hour medical treatment per week," he said.
"If you add in the above, the 70 hours will soon be exceeded," he explained. However, he made it clear that some patients will be seen. The chairman said, "I have already asked the patients for their consent, but I will adjust the schedule.
"We will provide medical care to those who are unable to do so," he said. Prior to this, the emergency response committee had been discussing whether to make specialists work 52 hours a week, as the absence of resident doctors was causing fatigue among specialists.
"If there is no change to the government's plan to increase the number of medical school students, the professors' opposition will continue," he said.
"However, nothing has changed significantly from before," he said. "Nurses and other medical staff who remain in the medical field will be able to continue providing medical care together when this situation calms down and students and medical residents can return.
"I hope that this will create an environment where professors can continue to work in a relaxed atmosphere," he said. "Otherwise, professors will probably get tired and leave the medical field even more," he said. "So far, about 200 professors have left the medical field.
After the press conference, the emergency response committee inspected the lecture rooms of Chungbuk National University's medical school and other educational facilities, and reported that the government's plan to increase the number of medical students was
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