On the 26th, Lee Pil-soo, chairman of the Jeollanam-do Medical Association, who was elected as the president of the Korean Medical Association (medical association), speaks of his feelings of election after the counting of the votes is over. Provide medical consultation.
Lee Pil-soo (60) was elected as the 41st president of the Korean Medical Association (Medical Association).
On the 26th, the National Medical Association’s Central Election Management Committee announced that candidate Lee Pil-soo, number 2, voted 12,431 votes, 52.54% of the total number of votes (excluding 7 invalid votes), in the final ballot for the presidential election held in the meeting room on the 7th floor of the Medical Association’s Yongsan Temporary Hall on the 26th. And announced that he was elected president. Candidate Hyun-taek Lim, number 1, won 11,227 votes (47.46%).
A total of six candidates ran for the first election held on the 19th of this month, but there were no candidates who received a majority of the votes, so the two candidates who were the first and second place voters advanced to the final ballot. Lee won 26.74% of the valid votes in the first round of voting, falling behind Candidate Lim, who recorded 29.7%, but succeeded in overturning in the final ballot.
Born in 1962, Pil-soo Lee is a Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon who graduated from Chonnam National University College of Medicine and trained at Masan Samsung Hospital. After being elected as the president of the Jeollanam-do Medical Association in 2015, he succeeded in re-election, and then served as the chairman of the Special Committee for Reviving Small and Medium Hospitals of the Medical Association as vice-chairman of the 40th Medical Association, and the Chairman of the Special Committee for Management Support of the Medical Association’s Corona 19 Hospital.
Lee suggested as a pledge to △Establish a department dedicated to handling complaints for members △Organize and act as a support team for members affected by Corona 19 △Stop promotion of the 4 major medical evils △Innovate public health policies △Establish a medical delivery system centered on primary medical care.
Lee-elect is known as a relatively moderate figure compared to the incumbent chairman of the largest medical council or candidate Lim Hyun-taek, who was a rival. In the course of the election campaign, he said, “The Korean Medical Association has been responding to the government’s arbitrary enforcement of the 4 major evils medical policy with a struggle.” Has revealed his conviction.
Immediately after the elections, Lee said, “The negative public opinion that doctors are in collective egoism will never have a good effect on us.” I will try,” he said.
Out of the total of 48,969 voters, 23,665 people participated in the final voting, recording a turnout of 48.33%. Lee will serve as president for three years from May 1st to April 30th, 2014.
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