South Korea police to question medical body officials over trainee doctors walkout


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  • Wednesday, 06 Mar 2024

FILE PHOTO: A medical worker uses a mobile phone at Severance Hospital in Seoul, South Korea, February 21, 2024. REUTERS/Kim Soo-Hyeon/File Photo

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean police on Wednesday called in for questioning officials from a doctors' association over accusations they had broken medical law, as authorities kept up pressure for trainee doctors to end a two-week walkout and return to hospitals.

Joo Soo-ho, a spokesperson for the emergency committee of the Korean Medical Association's (KMA), attended a police station in Seoul on Wednesday morning, an official at the capital's police agency said.

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