Nurses and doctors are moving at a university hospital in Seoul on the afternoon of the 8th./Newsis
Starting this month, the government will support training costs of 1 million won per month for pediatric and adolescent residents.
On the 8th, the Ministry of Health and Welfare held a briefing for the ‘Doctors’ Collective Action Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters’ and announced, “We have decided to provide training costs of 1 million won per month to medical residents and medical residents starting in March.”
The Ministry of Health and Welfare plans to quickly expand the scope to support residents in other essential medical subjects such as childbirth and emergency, in addition to small and medium-sized dental care.
Through a pilot project, we will also consider ways to shorten the 36 hours of continuous work for majors. The Ministry of Health and Welfare held an expert discussion session on ‘Improving the Medical Resident Training System’ from 2 PM to 4 PM on this day to discuss ways to improve the training environment for medical residents. Minister of Health and Welfare Cho Gyu-hong attended the debate and said, “We will actively pursue qualitative improvement of the training system and comprehensive improvement of the working environment for majors.”
To fill the medical gap caused by the departure of medical residents, 20 military doctors and 138 public health doctors will be dispatched to 20 medical institutions for a month starting on the 11th. Approximately 10 people will be supported per institution.
Park Min-soo, First General Coordinator of the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters (Second Vice Minister of Health and Welfare), is briefing the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters (Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters) on the 8th at the Seoul Government Complex in Jongno-gu, Seoul. /Newsis
The Ministry of Health and Welfare said, “We will relieve the heavy workload of field medical staff and maintain the emergency medical care system as much as possible by deploying nurses, public health doctors, and military doctors to support medical treatment, and supporting the hiring of additional personnel.”
Regarding the ‘medical care support nurse pilot project’, which has been expanded in medical settings since this day, it was said that it was being promoted within the legal scope. The Ministry of Health and Welfare said, “This pilot project is being carried out based on the Framework Act on Health and Medical Services.”
He continued, “There was a request from hospital directors in the field for a pilot project for medical care support nurses,” and “To this end, the Ministry of Health and Welfare has established a ‘medical care support personnel improvement council’ in which 20 people, including the hospital association, nursing association, resident council, and patient groups, have participated since June of last year. ‘ has been discussed. “This is an agreement reached by the Hospital Association and the Nursing Association,” he said.
As of 11 a.m. on the 7th, among 12,907 residents at 100 teaching hospitals, 11,985 (92.9%) had abandoned their contracts or left their workplace. The Ministry of Health and Welfare said, “We are proceeding with administrative disposition procedures as soon as violations of the business start order are confirmed.”
In response to the controversy that some doctors are hiring residents who have left their workplaces at private clinics, the Ministry of Health and Welfare said, “This is grounds for disciplinary action due to violation of training regulations.” “If you practice medicine while your license is suspended or if your license is suspended more than three times, you are subject to license revocation,” he said.
In addition, it was said that the hospital has no obligation to pay wages to residents who are away from the medical field. The Ministry of Health and Welfare said, “According to the interpretation of employment-related regulations, there is no obligation to pay wages during the period in which residents do not provide work.”
Despite the departure of medical residents from their workplaces, the Ministry of Health and Welfare said, “The emergency treatment system focusing on seriously ill and emergency patients is being maintained stably.”
According to the Ministry of Health and Welfare, the number of patients hospitalized in intensive care units at high-level general hospitals is around 3,000, with no significant change compared to usual. The number of patients with moderate or lower severity at emergency medical facilities decreased by 29.3% on the 6th compared to the average for the 1st to 7th of last month. However, it was said that the number of severe emergency patients remains at a similar level as before.
2024-03-08 08:15:00
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