Medical workers walk at Severance Hospital in Seoul, South Korea, February 21, 2024. REUTERS/Kim Soo-hyeon
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea will start deploying military physicians and doctors from public health centres to strike-hit hospitals on Monday to help care for patients affected by the walkout of nearly 12,000 trainee doctors from 100 hospitals over government reform plans.
Twenty military surgeons along with 138 public health doctors will be assigned to 20 hospitals for four weeks, Health Minister Cho Kyoo-hong said at a meeting on Sunday.
