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medical association's strike is on the second day, and negotiations are still not working well. Full-time doctors who mainly do surgery and treatment in large hospitals across the country have announced that they will issue resignations. On the contrary, the government reiterated its position that it could be punished if he did not return to the hospital, and the president strongly criticized the strikers.

This is Nam Joo-hyun.

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is a reading room at a university hospital that usually reads brain-related test images.

It was empty in the aftermath of the strike.

There are already fewer brain and nerve-related surgeries, and emergency surgeries are not easy.

The orders for commencement of work sent by the Ministry of Health and Welfare are stuck on one side of the wall without being delivered to the doctors in the field.

Full-time doctors across the country have decided to submit their resignation letters.

The Ministry of Welfare hasn't stepped back either.

[Kim Hyeon-sook/Ministry of Health and Welfare Medical Resources Policy Division Director: The submission of a resignation letter is also viewed as an example of a group act. Even when submitting a resignation letter, an order to commence work can be issued... .]

We issued orders to commence business to 358 people majoring in 20 hospitals in the metropolitan area, and went to the hospitals to check their return status.

President Moon Jae-in also strongly criticized the willingness to participate in the strike, emphasizing the spread of Corona 19.

[President Moon Jae-in: I think that medical personnel leaving the medical field is the same as soldiers leaving the battlefield backwards in a wartime situation.]

As the government and the medical community are in conflict with each other without backing down, there will be problems with the production of doctors next year.

[Han Jae-jin/Dean of Ewha Womans University School of Medicine: (The government) immediately formed a legislative council and reviewed it openly and transparently from the root... .] At

a university hospital in Seoul, the number of surgeries has been reduced to a quarter of a week ago, and the medical gap is getting worse.

Both the government and the medical community have become inescapable of criticism for holding the people's safety and lives as hostages.

(Video coverage: used, video editing: Jeon Min-gyu)