Doctors must deliberate on what can be a wiser and more responsible action before they resort to a collective means.
The chief of the Korean Medical Association (KMA) apologized on Friday for using an article about Somali medical graduates to suggest that Korea could bring in medics from “third-world countries” in a social media post.
Lim Hyun-taek, president of the Korea Medical Association (KMA), posted on social media a photo of the commencement ceremony of a medical school in Somalia, after the government planned to import doctors from foreign countries.
The new leader of the nation’s largest doctors’ group on Sunday said that medical professionals would take a seat at the bargaining table only after the government "scraps its medical reform policies and the enrollment quota hike in medical schools."
Police conducted another raid on the newly elected president of the Korea Medical Association, Lim Hyun-taek, on suspicion of inciting the walkout by junior doctors.
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