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▷ 토론 주제 : Is it right for Korea’s Doctors to go on strike to protest medical reform plan?

Doctors go on strike to protest medical reform plan

Trainee doctors working at the country's general hospitals began a strike Friday to protest the government's medical reform plan amid a surge in coronavirus infections.

Recently, the Ministry of Health and Welfare announced that they are going to reform the medical school system. MHW estimates Korea needs about 60,000 more doctors. “The number of doctors per 1,000 people in Korea is 2.3, which is far below the OECD (Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development) average of 3.4,” said Kim Heon-joo, the ministry’s director general for health care policy. Thus, They plan to recruit some 4,000 more doctors between 2022-32, about three-quarters of whom will be deployed in rural parts of the country for at least 10 years. “The ministry, as well as the rest of the government, is convinced that expanding the medical workforce is inevitable,” the director said.

However, the medical community have strongly opposed plans to raise admission quotas at medical schools, claiming that increasing the number of new doctors will only lead to more competition and hurt the quality of treatment. Doctors insist that Korea has the best health care access among OECD member states, argues the Korean Medical Association, which represents some 130,000 doctors. Population projections show the doctor-to-patient ratio will surpass the OECD average by 2028. According to doctors and medical students, adding more doctors is the “cheapest solution” to the challenges of the country’s rural medicine.

The Ministry of Health and Welfare and the medical community have conflicts over this matter. Is it right for doctor’s to go on strike or is it wrong for doctor’s to abandon patients amid of Covid-19?