While majors predicted a strike tomorrow (7th), the government predicted that there would be no disruption to medical treatment by securing alternative human resources.

However, the patient's waiting time is expected to increase.

The Korea Electro-Mechanics Council decided to start a full-scale strike, including all essential personnel such as the intensive care unit, delivery, surgery, dialysis room, and emergency room, in response to the recent government-announced increase in medical school capacity.

A spokesman for the Ministry of Health and Welfare, Son Young-rae, said at a government briefing at the Seoul Government Office today in a briefing on medical strikes, “It can be created in a large university hospital where medical professionals work. On the day), it is unlikely that there will be any major disruption in medical treatment. "We expect the waiting time will be longer."

According to the government, each training hospital is trying to acquire alternative personnel while grasping the size of the majors participating in the strike.

“Health and Health Policy Officer of the Ministry of Welfare, Kim Heon-ju, said, “The grasp of the scale of participation is being made in various ways by the relevant institution (training hospital), and there is an alternative manpower for each institution.” "I know that we are looking for ways to prevent this."

"I do not exclude essential fields such as the emergency room for participation, but I think that there should be no disruption to essential medical care in the Daejeon Federation," Kim said.

The government is sympathetic to issues such as the medical gap between regions, which are also considered as the background of the increase in the medical school capacity, and is planning to resolve the conflict through dialogue.

"The Korean Medical Association or us (government) have a common problem consciousness," said Sohn. "We are sympathetic in the direction that we need to solve the problem of lack of doctors in essential areas such as medical gap between regions, manpower imbalance, and so-called profitability decline." Said.

"However, it is pointed out that it is important to improve the local conditions and to rationally reorganize the medical delivery system, not to resolve the increase in medical consultation, but to promote the increase of the medical school." I think that we should go together to achieve our goal. If we solve the problem while discussing with the medical community, we believe that the entire medical community can find a way to coexist."