Regarding so-called "unpaid doctors" who are not paid salaries even though they are in medical treatment at university hospitals, etc. The union requested the country to re-investigate.
Unpaid doctors are doctors who are treated at university hospitals, etc., but are not paid because they are regarded as part of research or self-study.
As a result of the first fact-finding survey conducted by the national government three years ago, it was confirmed that there were more than 2,800 unpaid doctors in 59 university hospitals nationwide as of September 2018, and the hospitals have not paid to the national government. He answered that he would pay a salary.
However, according to the labor union "National Doctors Union" created by working doctors,
▼ in addition to the voice that all or part of the salary is still not paid,
▼ the salary is paid even at the university hospital where there is no unpaid doctor. It means that there are multiple testimonies that there are doctors who do not.
On the 19th, the union requested the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology to
▼ confirm whether the salary was paid at the hospital where there was an unpaid doctor, and then
▼ re-investigate the university hospital where there is no unpaid doctor. bottom.
Naoto Ueyama, the representative of the "National Doctors Union", said, "Many unpaid doctors are vulnerable doctors and it is difficult to speak up. Since improvement cannot be expected by the voluntary efforts of university hospitals, the government will give guidance. We should work on improvement. "