On Friday, the South Korean government intensified its efforts to end a strike through thousands of doctors in the country, as Seoul took the unprecedented pace of restaurants in the capital in an effort to mitigate an outbreak of coronavirus cases.
The Ministry of Health has extended an order to return doctors to work across the country and has filed a complaint with police against at least 10 doctors who have reportedly complied with an ordinance in force in Seoul since Wednesday.
But the Korean Medical Association announced Friday that it planned to conduct a national strike starting September 7, indefinitely, unless it abandons its reforms.
The escalation of the dispute comes as South Korean officials face a new wave of COVID-19 infections: late-night food at the capital’s retail outlets and Seoul’s metropolitan dominance were limited for the first time since it began. the outbreak.
After competitive studies and contained a pre-year primary epidemic, the country suffered a setback this month when a church organization expanded to a political rally.
Authorities reported 371 new infections on Thursday, bringing the total to 19077, adding 316 deaths.
“For the lives and protection of citizens in a serious crisis of national coronavirus transmission, the government has inevitably extended the order to return to paintings for trained doctors and professionals today across the country,” health minister Park Neung-hoo said.
At the heart of the dispute are government plans to increase the number of medical academics over several years, identify public medical schools, allow government insurance to further control Eastern medicine, and introduce more telemedicine options.
Nearly 16,000 internal doctors and citizens have been on strike since August 21 because of the government’s plans, which said they were needed to better prepare for public fitness crises.
Medical students, however, say the additional budget would be spent more on the wages of existing passers-by and systemic problems would be addressed.
“We strongly denounce the government for filing criminal fees within a day for refusing to comply with the order,” Choi Dae-zip, president of the Korean Medical Association, said at a seoul police station.
Thousands of hospital doctors, trainees and personal doctors started a three-day strike Wednesday in explicit solidarity with in-house doctors and residents.
Internal doctors and citizens shape the backbone of fitness in emergency rooms and extensive care units, and primary hospitals have reported delays and disruptions since the strike. Doctors on strike presented their transit testing centers to help combat the epidemic.
Public opinion on strike and the government’s reaction have combined at the ballot box.
“I also perceive doctors, but now is not the time,” a 71-year-old Reuters Lim Soon-ja, an outdoor thyroid cancer patient at Seoul National University Hospital, told Reuters Lim Soon-ja.
Jeong Eun-kyeong, director of the Korean Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC), warned that models indicated that if the outbreak was concentrated in Seoul, it was not contained, the instances could increase to 2,000 per day.
Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun announced that the government had agreed to extend Phase 2 restrictions, the key moment, across the country for at least a week.
Cafes, some of which have been known as hot spots, are limited to takeaway and home delivery. Restaurants, sandwiches and bakeries can offer on-site food between nine p. m. and five a. m.
Churches, nightclubs and highs in the capital are already closed and the mask is mandatory in public places.
Resident inmates and doctors basically protest against certain government decisions that don’t favor them.
Apparently, today’s doctors, especially so-called specialists, are looking for more money than their practice to help others take care of their health. Perhaps the hippocratic oath is dead and makes no sense in this world of cash.