{"id":63598,"date":"2024-04-23T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myanmarnewsgazette.com\/?guid=8c3423a30fadcdf9874d2b547e41baae"},"modified":"2024-04-23T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T00:00:00","slug":"presidential-office-expresses-regret-at-doctors-insistence-on-revisiting-admissions-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myanmarnewsgazette.com\/presidential-office-expresses-regret-at-doctors-insistence-on-revisiting-admissions-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential office expresses regret at doctors’ insistence on revisiting admissions issue"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n SEOUL, The presidential office expressed regret Tuesday at doctors’ insistence that the government revisit the medical school admissions issue from scratch.<\/p>\n
Jang Sang-yoon, senior presidential secretary for social policy, also expressed frustration that doctors’ groups have refused to engage in dialogue with the government despite its offers to talk.<\/p>\n
“The government proposed a consultation body composed only of members of the medical community and the government, but the medical community is refusing to take part in one-on-one dialogue while insisting only on revisiting the issue from scratch,” Jang said during a press briefing at the presidential office. “We consider it extremely regrettable.”<\/p>\n
Jang called on the medical community to come forward for talks, in whatever format and with whatever subject, so that the two sides can hold “rational and constructive discussions.”<\/p>\n
In particular, he called for a positive response before the planned launch of a special medical reform committee later this week, say
\ning the government is open to discussions if the medical community comes forward with a unified proposal on a rational alternative to the government’s decision to raise the medical school admission quota by 2,000 seats.<\/p>\n
About 12,000 trainee doctors have left their worksites since Feb. 20 in protest of the admissions hike, forcing major hospitals to delay or cancel surgeries and other public health services.<\/p>\n
Source: Yonhap News Agency<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
SEOUL, The presidential office expressed regret Tuesday at doctors’ insistence that the government revisit the medical school admissions issue from scratch.<\/p>\n
Jang Sang-yoon, senior presidential secretary for social policy, also expressed frustration …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n