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Medical community to activate watching on pharmacist's illegal practices.
The KMA raised an agenda of operating "The Illegal Medical Practice Prosecution and Surveillance Center" in the standing directorate meeting on Jan. 4, and will make final conclusion in the next meeting as scheduled o...
First consultation fee charged by medium and large hospitals to rise by 1,000 won.
Taking effect from Jan. 1, next year the first medical consultation fee at 30 beds or more hospitals will be increased now from 7,400 won to 8,400 won.
The MOHW held the Health Insurance Evaluation and Coordinatio...
SCMR filed interim injunction for nullification of KMA's poll on current medical issues.
The Struggle Committee for Medical Rights has filed an interim injunction for nullification of the KMA's poll conducted on Nov. 20 over the official acceptance of the medical reform issues recently compromised in the ...
Harsh pressure by medical community to government widely diffused.
A tripartite meeting schedule among the government, the medical and the pharmacy communities has been postponed, which provokes a tough atmosphere especially in the radical groups of the medical community.
The Stru...
Medical side decided to participate in tripartite council meeting.
The medical community decided to attend the Oct. 25 meeting of so called Tripartite Talks Meeting, comprising of the representatives from the government, the medical and the pharmacy communities to discuss revision to...
Medical community's policy inclined to patient's optional dispensing system.
A new issue in the medical and pharmacy role separation program has surfaced to the public from the medical community. The key issue was to give an option to patients in their prescription filling at either hospitals,...
Medical community raised questions over government negotiation with pharmacists.
Although many opinions criticized the negotiation made between the government and the pharmacist community, the 10 subcommittee members of the Emergency Countermeasure Committee of KMA decided to take park in the nego...
Collective strikes of medical communities battered whole nation.
The medical community implemented their planned walk out across the nation on Oct. 6, causing enormous inconveniencies and troubles to the ailing people.
However, it is foreseen that the strike may be hardly develo...
Negotiation between government and medical community failed.
A negotiation between the government and the medical community on Sept. 8 went failure, and therefore once more big medical strikes across the nation may happen on Sept. 15, which was previously declared by the medica...
Prime Minister Lee Han-dong foresees current interns and residents's strikes to close in September.
Prime Minister Lee Han-dong reported the government policy operational plan for the second half of 2000 in the briefing for the President on Aug. 29, in which the strikes of medical communities, especially of the inte...
