SNU Professors to Meet with National Assembly’s Health and Welfare Committee

The government and the National Assembly are set to meet with Seoul National University’s(SNU) medical professors, amid their announcement to indefinitely suspend their hospital operations next Monday in support of trainee doctors who have left their worksites since February against the government’s medical reform plans.

According to the medical community and the National Assembly on Thursday, lawmakers from the National Assembly’s Health and Welfare Committee will hold talks with medical professors from SNU and its affiliate hospitals on Sunday.

The meeting is scheduled a day before the start of the medical professors’ indefinite suspension of hospital operations.

The meeting comes after the emergency committee representing professors at SNU College of Medicine met with Prime Minister Han Duck-soo on Tuesday to convey the demands of the medical community and urge the government to play a role in resolving the prolonged medical situation.

The head of the emergency committee Kang Hee-kyung said the request for the meeting came on Wednesday, adding that the committee will convey its demands and seek a resolution at a parliamentary level.