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South Korean police question first doctor over walkouts
“I came here with ease because, literally, I have nothing to hide, nor reasons to hide,” the 65-year-old surgeon told reporters before he went inside.
“The charge of instigation can’t be established because we have never instigated” the junior medics to quit en masse, he said.
He said the doctors’ protest was “non-violent” and urged the government to renounce its “stubbornness” and negotiate.
The Wednesday questioning is the first police probe into any medical personnel in connection with the ongoing walkouts by the young doctors.
Despite the warning of licence suspension, striking junior doctors have not returned to work on any significant scale, government data shows.
Source: CNA