Two professors in the Department of Pediatric Nephrology under the Department of Pediatrics and Students at Seoul National University Hospital recently submitted letters of resignation against the government’s policy of increasing the number of schools medical. There are a total of two professors in the Department of Pediatric Nephrology at Seoul National University.
The Pediatric Nephrology Department is a representative critical department that provides dialysis treatment for children weighing less than 35 kg and suffering from chronic kidney disease. There are only eight places in the country where pediatric dialysis is available, including Seoul National University, Seoul Asan, Severance, Samsung Seoul, Kyungpook National University, Pusan National University, Konnam National University, and Jeju National University Hospital. Among them, Seoul National University Hospital is the only representative hospital in this area with a pediatric dialysis room.
According to the medical community, Professors Kang Hee-kyung and Ahn Yo-han from the Department of Pediatric Nephrology at Seoul National University Hospital posted a ‘resignation notice’ on the door of their clinic at the end of last month . In the announcement, they said, “Our desired retirement date is August 31 of this year,” and “We would like to refer our patients to trusted pediatric nephrology specialists, such as so please let us know when you decide on a hospital.” They then listed some hospitals in Seoul, Gyeonggi-do, and other regions.
In most cases, there is a congenital kidney disease in children that requires dialysis. Because the kidneys cannot filter and remove waste from the body properly, children suffering from this disease must receive treatment using a dialysis machine (artificial kidney). You can undergo ‘hemodialysis’ in which blood is withdrawn at the hospital for around 4 hours, three times a week, waste products are removed and then returned to the body, or ‘ peritoneal dialysis’, which injects dialysate into the patient’s peritoneum (membrane covering the abdominal cavity) every day. Even one dialysis treatment can lead to death.
Professor Kang Hee-kyung said in a telephone call with this newspaper that day, “We have strongly opposed the government’s policy (increasing the number of medical schools) in every way, but the government did not respond, creating this unusual situation.” He said, “We were just (as professors)), because that means recognizing the policy of the government, so I thought I couldn’t do that,” he said.
A professor at a university hospital in Seoul said, “Children have smaller blood vessels, so it’s much harder to get dialysis treatment than adults, and they also have many complications, so the risk is high. ” “It is a representative family to avoid because it is almost indistinguishable from other species.” This means that, although the government has ignored the ‘high risk, low reward’ issue ‘ in the pediatric nephrology department for a long time, they have announced ‘increasing the number of medical schools’, removing professors at Seoul National University Hospital.
It is said that there are about 100 pediatric patients across the country who are receiving dialysis for kidney disease, etc. Medical industry figures said, “50 to 60 percent of pediatric dialysis patients nationwide were treated at Seoul National University. “
Some in the medical community say, “It would be hard to get sympathy if two professors at Seoul National University Hospital, which treats about half of children with chronic kidney disease nationwide, ‘ leaving patients because of government policy.’
2024-04-22 12:08:57
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