SKorea empowers nurses as doctors' strike goes on

SEOUL: South Korea granted nurses new powers and legal protections on Tuesday and began an investigation into a patient's death, as hospital chaos caused by the trainee doctors' strike entered a second week.

Major hospitals are struggling to provide services after thousands of junior physicians handed in their resignation and stopped working last week to protest the government's plan to sharply increase medical school admissions in the face of a rapidly aging society.