Nurses in South Korea are being given legal protection to perform some medical procedures to try and ease a crisis caused by a walkout of trainee doctors.
More than two-thirds of the country's resident and intern doctors have left their posts to protest the government's plans to increase quotas of trainees to cope with a shortage of doctors.
The government is warning of legal action against those who don't get back to work by the end of the month.
Patrick Fok reports.
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