Majors from all over the country go on strike today (7th) and take a group break.

Major university hospitals in Seoul are expected to have no major setbacks in medical treatment, as they have alternate staffs such as clinical lecturers and professors assigned to their duties.

The Korea Electro-Mechanics Council decided to suspend all majors' work, including essential maintenance work, including emergency rooms, delivery rooms, and dialysis rooms for 24 hours from 7 am today to 7 am tomorrow.

In addition to the strike, they will also hold outdoor gatherings around the country, including Yeouido in Seoul.

A major is a doctor who goes through a training course to obtain a professional qualification at a university hospital, etc., and is called an intern or resident.

He is in charge of various tasks such as assisting the professor's surgery and treatment and checking the inpatient's condition.

It is known that 70-80% of the 16,000 people in the major will participate in the strike today.

Major university hospitals, such as Seoul National University Hospital, respond to the'vacancy' of majors with alternative human resources such as clinical lecturers and professors.

The main goal is to minimize patient discomfort by minimizing work gaps.

Some of the surgeries scheduled for today were postponed.

At the Samsung Seoul Hospital, due to a major strike, about 18 surgical schedules were changed.

Seoul St. Mary's Hospital assigns professors for each ward to manage inpatients and creates and operates alternative work plans in each department.

The majors participating in the strike decided to proceed annually.

Severance Hospital and Seoul Asan Hospital also prepared for the patient's discomfort by rescheduling tasks such as inpatient management and on-the-spot care, which had been undertaken by majors.

In the medical industry, the medical crisis caused by the strike will not occur today.

However, I am concerned about the situation in which the strike is not just'one day' but prolonging.

An official at a university hospital in Seoul said, "If the strike stops in the short term, there will be no medical confusion that may be of concern."

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