S. Korean hospitals process resignations of nearly 7,700 trainee doctors

Medical personnel move around a hospital in Seoul on Thursday. - Photo: Yonhap

SEOUL: Local training hospitals have completed processing the resignations of nearly 7,700 trainee doctors who have left their posts over the past five months to protest the medical school quota hike, the health ministry said Thursday (July 18).

According to data compiled by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, 56.5 percent of the 14,531 trainee doctors expressed their intention to leave since they left their hospitals in late February.