Starting March 8th, nurses are allowed to expand their roles in the emergency rooms of major hospitals in South Korea to address a shortage of medical staff, amid a mass strike by more than 11,000 medical interns entering its 18th day, disrupting healthcare services.
According to Yonhap, to compensate for the shortage of medical staff, emergency units at military hospitals have been opened to the public, and the health sector has officially begun allowing nurses at major hospitals to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and administer medication to emergency patients.
The Ministry of Health launched a pilot program late last month, allowing nurses to perform specific tasks previously handled by doctors, albeit within a limited scope. The government has decided to allocate 188.2 billion won (US$141 million) per month from the state health insurance fund to address the strike by trainee doctors.
KHANH HUNG
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