SEOUL: South Korea said on Monday it had started procedures to suspend the medical licenses of 4,900 junior doctors who have resigned and stopped working to protest government medical training reforms, causing health care chaos.
The doctors' walkout, which started on February 20, is over government plans to sharply increase the number of medical school admissions, which it says is essential to combat shortages and serve the East Asian country's rapidly aging population. Medics argue the increase will erode service quality.
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