Despite being treated at a university hospital, the treatment as an "unpaid doctor" who is not paid has not changed, and the doctors concerned told the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare that medical treatment for the new coronavirus is also required. Requested improvement and submitted a request.
The request was submitted by an unpaid male doctor who belongs to a university hospital in Tokyo, a labor union "National Doctor Union" made up of working doctors, and a lawyer of the "Japan Labor Lawyer".
Unpaid doctors are young doctors who are treated at university hospitals, etc., but have not been paid the salary to be received in the name of research, etc., and the government has quietly acknowledged their existence for the first time. 2819 unpaid doctors have been identified in the university hospital.
According to the National Medical Union, etc., the situation has not improved even now, and there have been reports of cases where unpaid doctors are required to receive medical treatment for the new coronavirus. After acknowledging that, if there was a complaint from a doctor, he requested that administrative guidance be given promptly.
According to the doctor who submitted the request, even if he appealed to the Labor Standards Inspection Office for guidance for improvement, he was left unattended for more than two years, and Naoto Ueyama, the representative of the national doctor union, said, "Unpaid doctors make a living. Because of this, I am also working part-time, and overwork is becoming chronic. The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare should take the lead in responding promptly. "