"The fuse is burning short," says Huang Fu-yuan, and no one in pediatrics knows where the money is going to come from. The Department of Health approved an upper limit of 240 new pediatric residents this year, but so far fewer than 100 have been recruited. Each hospital can only afford to recruit 40 % of the pediatric residents it needs and has to make up for the staff shortage with nurses.
「快要火燒屁股了，」黃富源表指出，兒科「錢」途茫茫，衛生署核可今年全台兒科住院醫師招收上限為 240 名，至今卻仍招不滿 100 名，各醫院平均僅能招到 4 成左右，不足的人力只好以護士來取代。