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Tomorrow (14th), which is the Friday before the holiday season, please check in advance if you are going to go to the hospital. The Korean Medical Association, which has been opposed to government policies such as expanding medical school quotas, will go on a general strike tomorrow. The emergency room, intensive care unit, and delivery room are operating as usual, but about one out of four local clinics is expected to be closed.

Reporter Nam Joo-hyun reported this news.

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A notice was posted to a clinic in downtown Seoul stating that it will be closed tomorrow.

In order to participate in the general strike of the medical association, 25% of the local lawmakers decided to take a break tomorrow, and 8,300 locations nationwide.

In the general strike after six years since 2014, not only doctors from local clinics, but also doctors majoring in university hospitals and some full-time doctors who closed on the 7th.

However, unlike the 7th, labor, emergency, dialysis, and inpatients and critically ill patients were excluded from the strike.

Major university hospitals have delayed non-urgent surgery and hospitalization schedules.

[Dae-Ha Kim/Spokesman of the Korean Medical Association: Because it is an unavoidable choice in a situation where the means to express a doctor is limited, it maintains essential medical functions to the extent that it does not cause nuisance to patients and the public as much as possible... ] The

National Academy of Medicine, a group of scholars and elders in the medical field, issued a call to talk with the medical community without setting an answer, saying that it is a problem that the government operates the medical system arbitrarily without a long-term plan.

In preparation for the medical gap, the government plans to open the door forcibly if the leave rate exceeds 30%.

[Park Neung-hoo/Minister of Health and Welfare: When it is predicted that damage to the lives and safety of the people will occur, the local public health center has taken measures to issue an order to commence business... ] The

government plans to post a list of medical institutions that can be treated tomorrow on the homepages of the Ministry of Health and Welfare, the Health Insurance Corporation, and each province.

(Video coverage: Seo Jin-ho·Kim Min-cheol, Video editing: Kim Jong-woo, VJ: Shin So-young)