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MOH explores alternative placements for 792 medical trainees, aiming to address shortage of healthcare workers.

Professors will start scaling back outpatient treatment to focus on emergency and severely ill patients, while some submit resignations.

The health minister said hotline is to support physicians who faced harassment or peer pressure if they chose not to join a mass walkout.

Twenty military surgeons along with 138 public health doctors will be assigned to 20 hospitals for four weeks, the Health Minister said.

South Korean police called in for questioning officials from a doctors' association over accusations they had broken medical law.

Protesting trainee doctors could face administrative and legal penalties including suspension of medical licences and fines or a jail term.

Up to 40,000 doctors joined the rally, demanding the government scrap the plan to increase medical school admissions.

Nurses have complained about the legal risk and heavier workload they face after trainee doctors walked off the job last week.

Vice health minister Park Min-soo said more than 9,000 trainee doctors had walked off their jobs so far.

Trainee doctors say the government needs to address pay and working conditions first before boosting the number of physicians.

So far, more than 8,400 doctors joined the walkout, equivalent to about 64% of the entire resident and intern doctors in South Korea.

Thousands of trainee doctors walked off the job in protest at a government plan to boost medical school admissions.

About 15,000 doctors and interns at large hospitals tendered their resignations en masse, despite a govt order for them to stay at work.

MINDEF in a statement said if the selected trainees are unable to participate in PLKN for a valid reason, they can apply for a postponement.

Tengku Zafrul said the allocation included RM180 million which provides loans for 12,000 trainees.