The pressure of the passport against the Korean Medical Association, which announced a collective action by protesting against the amendment to the medical law, even raised a general strike.
In addition, Rep. Seong-ju Kim, secretary of the Democratic Party’s Health and Welfare Committee, “Is the medical association living in an extraterritorial jurisdiction, or is the doctor’s license a sacred and inviolable license?”He raised his voice. The day before, Democratic Party spokesman Kang Seon-woo made a comment condemning the policy of collective action by the Korean Medical Association as “an obvious threat that took the lives and safety of the people as hostage.”
Park Young-seon (left) and Woo Sang-ho, preliminary candidates for the Democratic Party, together in the 4·7 Seoul Mayor’s by-election. On the 22nd, the two criticized the medical association’s general strike policy. yunhap news
The Democratic Party’s preliminary candidates for the 4/7 Seoul Mayor’s by-election were also added to the criticism procession. Park Young-sun’s preliminary candidate was at the BBS debate the day before “There are things that make citizens’ minds uneasy at the medical association, but shouldn’t they be united as one for quarantine?” Preliminary candidate Woo Sang-ho said, “It is a corporation that cancels the doctor’s license for murder, but it is too much to threaten quarantine with it. I said. Preliminary candidate Woo said, “I would like to ask if I agree with the opinion of Chairman Choi Choi, who supported Park Geun-hye, on the revision of the medical law, or if they agree with the opinions of many common-sense doctors.”
Gyeonggi Governor Lee Jae-myung, Democratic Party Representative Lee Nak-yeon, and Prime Minister Jeong Sye-gyun (from left) who are the passport presidents. yunhap news
The passport presidential election runners also said one word at a time. Gyeonggi Governor Lee Jae-myeong said on Facebook, “Anyone can claim their interests in a national sovereign country, but as a member of the community, there are laws that should not be broken, and there are lines that should not be crossed.” Pointed out. At the same time, he proposed to the National Assembly, “if it is difficult to maintain the medical system due to an illegal surgeon by doctors, we ask that nurses, etc., allow temporary vaccination or sample collection.”
Lee Nak-yeon, together with Democratic Party representative, also said at the party’s Supreme Council the day before, “The attitude of a medical group that should have a higher morality and social responsibility than anyone else will be a great disappointment to the people.” “If illegal collective actions are taken, the government will respond decisively. It is appropriate to do it.” Prime Minister Jeong Sye-gyun warned on the 21st that “the government will never let go of the collective action that makes the people’s devotion into a void.”
There is also a judgment that public opinion for the amendment to the medical law will be high behind the passport’s massive offensive against medical agreements. The revised bill of the medical law passed by the National Assembly Health and Welfare Committee by agreement between the two parties stipulates that “cannot be a medical person” for “a person sentenced to a prison sentence of more than the safe and not more than 5 years after the execution was completed (except for negligence and fatality in business). Are doing. A member of the National Assembly Health and Welfare Committee “This clause is equally stipulated in the Lawyers Law and Accountants Law.”And “From the public standpoint, a bill that the absolute majority must support”Said.
Kim Jong-in, head of the People’s Power Emergency Response Committee, met with reporters immediately after the Party Emergency Response Committee on the 22nd and said, “I can’t understand why I’m trying to touch doctors’ plantings when doctors’ cooperation is absolutely necessary.” . In response, Kim Seong-ju, the secretary of the Democratic Party’s Health and Welfare Committee, criticized, “I knew that there is a medical agreement behind the people’s strength.” yunhap news
Some of the Democratic Party faces expectations that “if the medical strike controversy persists until April, it will serve as a boon for the April 7 by-election.” Kim Jong-in, Chairman of the National Power Emergency Response Committee the day before “I can’t understand why the coronavirus outbreak is still going on and why the doctors try to touch the plantings at a time when doctors’ cooperation is absolutely necessary.”Because I said. An official from the Democratic Party’s by-election camp said, “The bigger the situation is, the more likely Chairman Kim’s affirmations will be recounted,” he said. “The’general election may become an issue comparable to that of the Korea-Japan war’ just before the 4-15 general election last year.” said.
There are many views that some of the politicians see that the strong response of the medical council is also due to the election of the next medical council president, which will be held next month. In a joint statement on the 20th, the six candidates who were candidates for the election of the next medical association president announced that “indiscriminate disciplinary punishment will mass-produce victims of good faith in the medical field, and the damage will eventually be returned to the people, so it is absolutely unacceptable.” In the case of passage, a hard-line response was also announced. On the 21st, the president of the Medical Association of Choi Sang-jip said, “What we are dealing with (not violent crimes) is that we decided to revoke our license when we were sentenced to imprisonment or higher for all crimes. If you go on a general strike, condemn it. The government will certainly be responsible for that.”
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