Cry for mercy: Park Ha-eun (right), a 23-year-old South Korean patient with Cornelia de Lange syndrome, in the arms of her mother, Jeong-ae (left), attending a rally against doctors’ strike in Seoul. — AFP
SEOUL: Hundreds of South Korean patient rights advocates gathered yesterday to urge physicians to halt a prolonged strike that has affected public health services.
Thousands of trainee doctors stopped working in February, protesting against government plans to increase medical school quotas which they say will affect the quality of specialist education.
