Headline : Govt. vows not to backtrack increased medical school admission quotas despite doctors walkout

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The government's ongoing push for medical reform is for the people, and it cannot be subject to negotiations, the health ministry said Friday, effectively rejecting the medical community's call for modifying the state plan to markedly raise medical school enrollment quota.

More than 90 percent of the country's 13,000 trainee doctors have been on strike in the form of mass resignations since Feb. 20 to protest the government's decision to increase the medical school enrollment quota by 2,000 seats from the current 3,058 starting next year.

"The government will not reverse the decision to push for the reform that a majority of the people want after negotiations with a specific group," Second Vice Health Minister Park Min-soo told a regular briefing.

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