Seoul Nationwide College Hospital (Yonhap)
Unionized employees at Seoul Nationwide College (SNU) Hospital, one of many nation’s largest hospitals, have determined to launch an indefinite walkout starting on Oct. 31 in protest of the federal government’s well being care reform and poor working situations, sources mentioned Saturday.
The union made the choice in a gathering held on Friday amid botched talks with the hospital on its name for sustaining the variety of hospital beds, bettering working situations and elevating pay for members.
The union blamed the federal government for making an attempt to destroy the general public well being care system by lowering the variety of beds at tertiary hospitals, together with public hospitals such because the SNUH, and failing to enhance working situations for workers at public hospitals.
The union plans to launch the strike until the hospital accepts its name to bolster the general public well being care system and rent extra personnel for the security of employees and sufferers.
The federal government earlier determined to lift the medical faculty seats by 1,500 for 2025 as a part of its plan to extend the variety of college students by round 2,000 over the following 5 years or so to deal with the scarcity of medical doctors.
Hundreds of trainee medical doctors have been absent from their workplaces within the type of mass resignations since February, with the medical group calling for discussions on the agenda to begin from scratch. (Yonhap)
