Military and public doctors dispatched

Military and public health doctors are dispatched to civilian hospitals on March 11 amid the prolonged medical vacuum caused by the walkout of trainee doctors in South Korea. Many large hospitals operate at below 50 percent of their capacity.

In order to help ease disruptions of medical services, military and public health doctors are being dispatched to civilian hospitals for four weeks from Monday. 150 of them will fill in for striking trainee doctors at 20 general hospitals.

Advance notices of three-month license suspension are being delivered to residents refusing to return to work. The first round of notice deliveries will be completed within days. Trainee doctors will begin receiving notices of license suspensions as early as March 26.