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President Yoon Suk Yeol said on the 6th, "I and the government will pursue medical reform without wavering, looking only at the future of the people and the country."

"In order to protect the health and life of the people, expanding the workforce of doctors is a task of the times that cannot be delayed any longer," President Yoon said at a Cabinet meeting held at the presidential office in Yongsan.

"The government has prepared a plan to implement medical reform after sufficient consideration and discussion by listening to various voices from the medical community, experts, patient groups, and the people," President Yoon said. "We have prepared four major packages for medical reform that will correct the collapsing medical system."

"We will enact the Special Act on the Handling of Medical Accidents so that doctors can treat them with their own beliefs in the field of essential medical care that protects the lives of the people, introduce a system of adjustment and liability insurance, and establish a fair compensation system for essential medical care through public policy fees," he said. "We will invest properly in local hospitals and allocate quotas to local medical schools so that they can receive good medical treatment wherever they live in the country."

To the medical community, where public opinion against the expansion of medical school quota is coming from within, he said, "I ask for cooperation from the medical community in medical reform to protect the future of this country as well as the lives and health of the people."

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health and Welfare will announce the expansion of the medical school quota in detail later in the day.