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South Korea’s leading doctors’ body on Saturday rejected a revised medical reform plan from the government, the initial version of which sparked a strike two months ago.
The ongoing walkout by thousands of trainee doctors has caused chaos in South Korean hospitals, and is in response to a plan to boost annual admissions to medical schools by 2,000 from next year.
The government on Friday offered its first concession, allowing 32 universities to admit as few as 1,000 medical students instead of the initially proposed 2,000 – but the…