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Medical Association held a general strike as announced today (14th) while protesting government policies including the expansion of medical school quotas. One of the three local clinics went on break, but fortunately there was no major medical gap.

This is Choi Ho-won.

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Thousands of doctors gathered in Yeouido, Seoul.

Most of them are local doctors and university hospitals majors who closed the hospital and took part in the general strike.

They insisted that the government is trying to forcibly designate doctors' work areas and majors after expanding medical school quotas.

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started a general strike, the neighborhood clinics 31.3% since the morning, the National More than 1,500 places participated and decided to close.

By region, Busan has the highest rate of closure at 45%, and Daejeon and Jeju Island are found to be 40%.

University hospital majors and some full-time doctors also participated, but personnel in charge of delivery, emergency, dialysis, and inpatients and critically ill patients were excluded from the strike.

Some patients postpone their visits to the hospital after tomorrow in anticipation of taking a break, and hospitals that did not participate in the strike extended their treatment hours, and fortunately, the medical turmoil that was worried about has not occurred.

Welfare Minister Park Neung-hoo, who visited Hanyang University Hospital, urged dialogue, but emphasized that expanding medical school gardens is inevitable.

[Park Neung-hoo/Minister of Welfare: The government announced plans to expand medical school quotas as a necessary policy to resolve the shortage of doctors and regional gaps.] The

medical association returns to normal medical treatment tomorrow, and after the weekend, the government struggles with the government in the future. We will discuss the directions again.