Migrant Workers in Korea

Oh My News has a a good article about 3D (dirty, dangerous, difficult) workers treatment in Korea and a reverend Kim Hae Sung who has opened a migrant workers hospital that treats all patients free of charge:

“Because of the jobs they do, the migrants are injured frequently and are open to danger,” said nurse Kim. “There are an estimated 400,000 immigrant workers, but more than half of them are here illegally, which means they cannot go to big hospitals as they are not covered by medical insurance and even if they are, the medical fees are so expensive that they can’t afford it.”

But after a year the hospital could not be any more successful. Although small in capacity, it has all the equipment as any other hospital and is busy all year round, with more than 5,000 patients being treated this year alone. The hospital offers every kind of treatment, from dentistry to gynecology, emergency operations and herbal medicine treatments.