The president of Asahikawa Medical University in Hokkaido resigned from NHK's interview due to a series of problems over the fact that he urged the hospital director at that time to accept people infected with the new coronavirus at a university hospital. I made clear my intention to do so.
The attorney-at-law distrusted the way the university's presidential selection meeting proceeded with the dismissal examination, and explained why it was "not desirable to cause further confusion at the university."
Akitoshi Yoshida, the president of Asahikawa Medical University, said that when the then director of the university hospital advised him to accept the infected person, he said, "If you accept it, please stop." , It has been revealed that he said, "Sprinkle corona" about the private hospital where the cluster was occurring.
Currently, the university president selection meeting is proceeding with the examination of whether or not it should be dismissed, and on the 17th, President Yoshida said to NHK that he would "retire" and decided to resign himself, and has already decided to resign. It was revealed that he had sent his resignation to the ministry.
On the afternoon of the 17th, a lawyer acting on behalf of the president met and said, "I have notified the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology that I will resign as president today."
After that, "I have to think that the president selection meeting is forcibly proceeding with deliberations based on the conclusion of the dismissal. I also considered fighting in the judiciary, but I thought that it would cause confusion for the university, so I withdrew. I made up my mind. "
President Yoshida is a first-year student at Asahikawa Medical University and became the first graduate to become president in 2007, and has been the president for an unusually long period of 14 years.