SNUH senior doctors are returning to work next week < Hospital < Article

Senior doctors at four hospitals affiliated with Seoul National University (SNU) will end their indefinite walkout and start working next week.

The four hospitals are SNU Hospital, SNU Bundang Hospital, Seoul Metropolitan Government SNU Boramae Medical Center, and SNU Hospital Healthcare System Gangnam Center.

(Credit: SNUH)

The emergency response committee of medical professors at SNU College of Medicine and SNUH said on Friday they would end the indefinite leave of absence, which began last Monday.

In a two-day poll of all 946 medical professors at the four hospitals, 696, or 73.6 percent, voted to end the indefinite leave, and 192 (20.3 percent) voted to continue the walkout.

About 75 percent of the professors chose “monitoring, criticizing, and proposing alternatives to the policy-making process” as an alternative. Fifty-five percent agreed on “solidarity with the general medical community” and 65.6 percent said “working hours should be adjusted to a sustainable level” to ensure patient and physician safety.

The emergency response committee clarified that the decision was not due to yielding to the government.

“The government is not communicating, but we cannot turn a blind eye to the people’s voice. The reason we are suspending the walkout is because we cannot allow the immediate damage to patients to continue,” the commitee said.

“It is not because we accept the incompetent and unreasonable policies of the government.”

The medical professors at SNU emphasized that the government was solely responsible for the disruption and collapse of healthcare and medical education.

“We will continue to resist. If the government’s irresponsible decisions threaten people’s health rights, we will resolve to take active action again.”

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