Seoul National University Hospital professors will be suspended indefinitely from today

Seoul National University Hospital (Seoul National University Hospital) has suspended its faculty for an indefinite period since Monday in support of South Korean interns and residents against the government's plan to expand enrollment.

According to a survey conducted by the Seoul National University College of Medicine and the Seoul National University Hospital Emergency Committee, 529 professors at Seoul National University Hospital, Bundang Seoul National University Hospital, and Gangnam Center, or 54.7 percent, have decided to suspend their medical services indefinitely from Thursday, Yonhap reported. The operating room start-up rate is expected to drop to 33.5 percent. Including the 529, a total of 873 professors supported the suspension, accounting for 90.3 percent of the total number of professors who participated in the treatment.

The committee held a rally at the Seoul Medical University in the morning of Thursday and announced an indefinite suspension of medical treatment, and held a seminar in the afternoon. The committee said that during the suspension period, patients with severe and rare diseases will be treated as usual, but the scale of treatment is expected to be reduced by about 40 percent. In addition, the Korean Medical Association has also announced that it will stop treating patients on the 18th.

The South Korean government will implement a shift shift system to ensure that patients can receive treatment at prime time. The government also asked medical institutions in the metropolitan area, Chungcheong Province, Jeolla Province, and Gyeongsang Province to set up a scheduling plan to ensure that at least one clinic in each district is in charge of emergency treatment at night and on public holidays, and to set up a patient reporting telephone number 129.

The South Korean government has asked the heads of university hospitals to consider compensation for the loss caused by the suspension of professors, and to consider removing hospitals that fail to respond from the list of health insurance advance payments.