The government is taking steps to encourage former nurses -- said to number about 710,000 nationwide -- to return to work, in a bid to alleviate the labor shortage caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
Last year, the government approved the dispatch of nurses to vaccination sites and temporary medical facilities through staffing agencies, and more than 20,000 nurses have since been assigned to inoculation venues. With an eye on the post-COVID-19 era, the government has also begun to systemize the return of former nurses through the My Number system.
