{"id":56472,"date":"2023-07-06T12:10:25","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T03:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/06\/south-korea-doctors-desert-paediatrics-as-low-birth-rate-sparks-fears-for-future"},"modified":"2023-07-06T12:10:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T03:10:25","slug":"south-korea-doctors-desert-paediatrics-as-low-birth-rate-sparks-fears-for-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56472","title":{"rendered":"South Korea: doctors desert paediatrics as low birth rate sparks fears for future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shortage of children\u2019s doctors has led to long waiting lists, clinic closures and even prompted prospective parents to think again<\/p>\n<p>A shortage of paediatricians in South Korea is leaving hospitals unable to fill posts while raising risks for children\u2019s health, doctors have said, claiming that the shortage is both a result of the world\u2019s lowest birthrate and increasingly a factor behind it.<\/p>\n<p>The number of paediatric clinics and hospitals in the capital, Seoul, has fallen by 12.5% over the five years to 2022, to just 456. Over the same period, the number of psychiatry clinics increased by 76.8%, while anaesthesiology centres saw a 41.2% rise, according to the Seoul Institute, a public administration thinktank.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/06\/south-korea-doctors-desert-paediatrics-as-low-birth-rate-sparks-fears-for-future\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortage of children\u2019s doctors has led to long waiting lists, clinic closures and even prompted prospective parents to think againA shortage of paediatricians in South Korea is leaving hospitals unable to fill posts while raising risks for children\u2019s h&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,346,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-health","category-south-korea","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56473,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56472\/revisions\/56473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}