China News Service, Seoul, February 26 (Reporter Liu Xu) On the 26th, intern and resident doctors who opposed the Korean government's medical school enrollment expansion policy collectively resigned for a week.

According to South Korea's Ministry of Health and Welfare (hereinafter referred to as the "Ministry of Welfare"), more than 10,000 interns and resident doctors in South Korea have resigned, and more than 9,000 of them are actually absent from work.

　　The Ministry of Welfare said on the same day that the results of a written inspection of 100 hospitals across the country showed that as of 19:00 local time on the 23rd, a total of 10,034 intern residents in these hospitals had submitted resignation reports, accounting for approximately 100% of the total intern residents in 100 hospitals. 80.5%.

The number of absentee doctors reached 9,006, accounting for approximately 72.3%.

　　According to Yonhap News Agency, the total number of intern residents in South Korea is more than 13,000, 95% of whom work in the above 100 hospitals.

The hospitals have not yet accepted the resignations.

　　Yonhap News Agency quoted news from the medical community on the 26th that in order to cope with the impact of collective resignations, major large hospitals in Seoul have halved their surgical and medical treatment schedules and made full use of manpower such as specially trained doctors and professors to fill the vacancies.

But the vacancies in medical services caused by the collective resignation and absence of interns and residents are still exacerbating medical chaos.

　　It is reported that as of 6 p.m. on the 23rd, the Medical Strike Victim Reporting Center has received a total of 38 new reports, including the hospital delaying operations (31 cases), refusing to accept medical treatment (3 cases), and canceling medical appointments (2 cases) , Postponed hospitalization (2 cases).

　　Yonhap News Agency reported that on the 23rd of this month, an 80-year-old patient in Daejeon, South Korea, suffered a cardiac arrest. During the ambulance transfer process, emergency personnel used the phone to contact a hospital that could receive the patient, but because the hospital had no beds and no professional medical personnel, 7 hospitals refused to accept patients due to reasons such as being unable to treat severely ill patients.

When the ambulance finally arrived at the emergency room of a university hospital in Daejeon, the patient was dead.

　　On the 26th, South Korea’s Minister of Administration and Security Lee Sang-min urged interns and resident doctors who participated in collective actions to face the seriousness of the current situation, called on them to return to work as soon as possible, and promised that if the doctors can return to work before the 29th of this month, the government will not hold them accountable. .

　　The Emergency Response Committee of the Korean Medical Association (Medical Association) expressed its stance on the same day and emphasized that it will continue to fight the government.

Previously, the committee announced that it would hold a national doctor mobilization meeting on March 3.

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