President Lee Jae Myung Calls for Systemic Healthcare Reform in South Korea
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President Lee Jae Myung highlighted persistent healthcare disparities, particularly in regional and essential medical services, during a meeting in Seoul, urging systemic reform and greater government responsibility to address these issues.
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President Lee Jae Myung addressed a meeting on medical reform, emphasizing the worsening healthcare disparities and problems in regional, essential, and public health care.
President Lee Jae Myung on Wednesday pointed to persistent disparities in health care, particularly in regional and essential medical services, calling for systemic reform to address the issue.
The president made the remarks during a meeting to discuss medical reform aimed at enhancing regional and essential medical services and strengthening public health care.
The discussion brought together around 100 participants, including medical workers, representatives from patient and labor groups, and government officials, as the government seeks to reduce health care disparities between urban and regional residents and improve regional, essential and public medical services.
"We still have a long way to go. So-called health care disparities continue to worsen, while significant problems persist in regional, essential and public health care," Lee said.
The president said that a "systematic" reform is needed to address problems in public and essential health care, instructing officials to devise health care policies that place greater responsibility on the government.
The meeting comes amid persistent disparities in the availability and quality of medical services between urban and regional areas. Pregnant women in remote regions are often forced to travel long distances to give birth due to shortages of doctors, particularly in essential but less profitable specialties, such as obstetrics.
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Officials will devise healthcare policies placing greater responsibility on the government.
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- What specific policies will be devised?
- How will the government ensure greater responsibility?
- What is the timeline for the systemic reform?
