A South Korean physician has been arrested for allegedly creating and distributing a “blacklist” of colleagues who will not be collaborating in an ongoing walkout over medical coaching reforms, media reviews and a docs’ organisation stated Saturday.
The case marks the primary arrest of a trainee physician in additional than six months of battle between the federal government and junior medical practitioners over the extended work stoppage, which has resulted within the deaths of some emergency sufferers.
The medic was arrested Friday for allegedly creating a listing with the names and private info of colleagues who had both returned to work or in any other case deserted the walkout, then repeatedly distributing it with malicious intent by functions like Telegram, in accordance with Yonhap Information Company.
The top of the Korean Medical Affiliation (KMA), South Korea‘s main docs’ physique, met with the detained trainee at a police station in Seoul on Saturday, saying afterwards that the federal government was in charge for the scenario.
“I imagine that everybody on the blacklist, in addition to the arrested trainee physician, is a sufferer,” KMA chief Lim Hyun-taek informed reporters.
The trainee was being detained on stalking fees, as authorities decided he had harassed the victims by sharing their info — comparable to cellphone numbers and their alma maters — with out their consent, in accordance with Yonhap and different native reviews.
1000’s of trainee docs walked off the job in February to protest authorities plans to extend medical college admissions to deal with physician shortages.
The strike has pressured widespread cancellations of surgical procedures and different remedies like chemotherapy, and has created a staffing disaster in emergency rooms nationwide.
The federal government finalised in Might an admissions hike of round 1,500 college students at medical colleges in 2025, saying it might assist deal with gaps in care because the nation’s inhabitants quickly ages.
Docs have insisted that the plan needs to be scrapped altogether, sustaining that if carried out, the reform would diminish the standard of service and medical training.
Critics of the strike accuse docs of merely making an attempt to guard their salaries and social standing.
The plan had been broadly well-liked with the general public, till the mass work stoppage prompted extended disruptions to the nation’s healthcare system, resulting in heightened public anxiousness.
South Korea’s common hospitals rely closely on trainees for emergency operations and surgical procedures.
The case marks the primary arrest of a trainee physician in additional than six months of battle between the federal government and junior medical practitioners over the extended work stoppage, which has resulted within the deaths of some emergency sufferers.
The medic was arrested Friday for allegedly creating a listing with the names and private info of colleagues who had both returned to work or in any other case deserted the walkout, then repeatedly distributing it with malicious intent by functions like Telegram, in accordance with Yonhap Information Company.
The top of the Korean Medical Affiliation (KMA), South Korea‘s main docs’ physique, met with the detained trainee at a police station in Seoul on Saturday, saying afterwards that the federal government was in charge for the scenario.
“I imagine that everybody on the blacklist, in addition to the arrested trainee physician, is a sufferer,” KMA chief Lim Hyun-taek informed reporters.
The trainee was being detained on stalking fees, as authorities decided he had harassed the victims by sharing their info — comparable to cellphone numbers and their alma maters — with out their consent, in accordance with Yonhap and different native reviews.
1000’s of trainee docs walked off the job in February to protest authorities plans to extend medical college admissions to deal with physician shortages.
The strike has pressured widespread cancellations of surgical procedures and different remedies like chemotherapy, and has created a staffing disaster in emergency rooms nationwide.
The federal government finalised in Might an admissions hike of round 1,500 college students at medical colleges in 2025, saying it might assist deal with gaps in care because the nation’s inhabitants quickly ages.
Docs have insisted that the plan needs to be scrapped altogether, sustaining that if carried out, the reform would diminish the standard of service and medical training.
Critics of the strike accuse docs of merely making an attempt to guard their salaries and social standing.
The plan had been broadly well-liked with the general public, till the mass work stoppage prompted extended disruptions to the nation’s healthcare system, resulting in heightened public anxiousness.
South Korea’s common hospitals rely closely on trainees for emergency operations and surgical procedures.
