South Korea healthcare in crisis amid doctor residents walkout

Resident doctors walks off the job as South Korean doctors protest a government decision to increase the admissions quota of medical students.

Frank Smith
Press TV, Seoul

Resident doctors in training walked off the job early Tuesday as South Korean doctors and residents protest a government decision to increase the admissions quota of medical students. President Yoon Suk Yeol said the country must not be taken hostage by doctors and urgent action was required to boost essential medicine and rural health care.