[Editorial] Neonatal intensive care unit at a local hospital withdrew after a professor alone endured ‘90 hours a week’

Nurses are taking care of babies in the neonatal unit of a hospital in Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do. Yonhap News file photo A professor who had been managing the neonatal intensive care unit at a university hospital alone for several years has finally decided to resign amid a shortage of doctors. Kim Jin-gyu, a professor of pediatrics at Chonbuk National University Hospital, said at the ‘Policy Forum for Restoration of Childbirth Infrastructure’ held on the 28th by the Korean Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology, etc., “If I hold on, everything will eventually collapse at once.