President Yoon Suk Yeol (C) visits a regional emergency medical heart in Gyeonggi Province surrounding Seoul on Sept. 4, 2024, on this picture supplied by the presidential workplace. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap)
President Yoon Suk Yeol made a late evening go to to a hospital emergency room Wednesday to encourage medical employees and promise the federal government’s unwavering assist amid rising strains on well being care providers.
Yoon visited a regional emergency medical heart in Gyeonggi Province surrounding Seoul as the federal government started deploying navy medical doctors and public physicians to hospital emergency rooms throughout the nation the identical day.
His go to got here amid mounting considerations hospital ERs specifically shall be short-staffed through the upcoming five-day Chuseok vacation later this month because of the continued walkout by junior medical doctors protesting the federal government’s medical reform plans.
In response to the presidential workplace, Yoon famous through the go to that the well being care system has didn’t correctly compensate ER medical employees for his or her providers regardless of the tougher work they do in contrast with their colleagues in different departments.
He additionally identified that compensation has not been honest for medical employees in important well being care providers, such because the emergency, maternity, pediatric and intensive care departments, and pledged to drastically enhance authorities assist for the important providers.
