SEOUL: A South Korean physician has been arrested on fees of making and distributing a “blacklist” of colleagues who is not going to take part within the ongoing strike towards medical schooling reforms, media studies and a docs’ group stated on Saturday (Sept 21).
The case marks the primary arrest of a trainee physician in additional than six months of battle between the federal government and junior docs over a protracted labor strike that has left a number of sufferers lifeless in emergency rooms.
According to Yonhap information company, the physician was arrested on Friday on fees of making an inventory with the names and private data of colleagues who had returned to work or deserted the strike, after which repeatedly distributing it with malicious intent by way of apps equivalent to Telegram.
On Saturday, the president of the Korean Medical Association (KMA), South Korea’s essential docs’ affiliation, met with the detained intern at a Seoul police station, later saying that the federal government was accountable for the state of affairs.
“I consider that everybody on the blacklist, together with the arrested medical intern, are victims,” KMA chief Lim Hyun-taek informed reporters.
According to Yonhap and different native studies, the intern was arrested on stalking fees, as authorities discovered he had harassed victims by sharing their data, equivalent to telephone numbers and schools they attended, with out their consent.
