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SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s government said Thursday it will start suspending the licenses of striking junior doctors next week.Vice Health Minister Park Min-soo made the comments during a briefing as he repeated demands for the doctors to return to work immediately.More than 90 percent of the country’s 13,000 medical interns and residents have been on strike for about a month to protest the government’s plan to sharply increase medical school admissions.
The government has been taking a series of administrative steps to suspend their licenses after they missed a government-set, Feb. 29 deadline to return to work.Officials say the recruitment plan is aimed at adding more doctors to prepare for South Korea’s rapidly aging population in a country whose doctor-to-population ratio is one of the lowest in the developed world.
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