It has been confirmed that 94.7 percent of interns and residents at tertiary hospitals in the Seoul metropolitan region are refusing to work.

Rep. Kim Yoon of the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) said so on Wednesday after analyzing data submitted by the Ministry of Health and Welfare.

Rep. Kim received and analyzed data from the ministry on the attendance status of trainee doctors at tertiary hospitals in the greater Seoul area as of June 13. He found that out of 5,563 doctors at 23 tertiary hospitals in Seoul, Incheon, and Gyeonggi Province, only 296, or 5.3 percent, went to work.

Kim also analyzed the status of military and public doctors dispatched by the government to fill the gap left by the mass resignations of medical residents.

According to him, 276 military doctors and 219 public affairs doctors have been dispatched as of June 17, totaling 495.

By regions and medical institutions where they were dispatched, Rep. Kim found that 407, or 82.2 percent, were working at tertiary general hospitals. In particular, 253 worked at hospitals in the Seoul metro region, accounting for 51.1 percent of all dispatches.

Notably, the analysis of the original affiliation of public doctors sent to Seoul and its vicinity found that most were working in medically vulnerable areas. Of the 108, 83, or 76.9 percent, were from outside the greater Seoul area.

"The current situation is disastrous because the government's irresponsible expansion of the medical school enrollment quota is forcing doctors from medically vulnerable areas to be recruited to large hospitals in the Seoul metro region instead of providing an alternative to address the medical gap in rural areas highly dependent on public service doctors,” Rep. Kim said.

Rep. Kim added that he would scrutinize the government's medical school quota-increasing process at the National Assembly Health and Welfare Committee on Wednesday.