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Hear our pleas: A filepic showing contract doctors from Hospital Kuala Lumpur during the protest on Monday calling for job security and better carrier opportunities.
PETALING JAYA: The problem the country is facing with contract doctors is not due to the oversupply of medical graduates but the insufficient number of posts available for housemanship, medical experts say.
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Faculty of Medicine, Obstetrician and Gynaecologist senior consultant Prof Dr Zaleha Abdullah Mahdy pointed out that the country’s doctor to population ratio was alarmingly imbalanced.
“The problem now is that there aren’t enough posts for doctors to fill in the public health service sector; it has not expanded in line with the population’s needs.
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PETALING JAYA: Malaysians have been living with the Covid-19 pandemic for more than 18 months and health experts now say the virus is “here to stay”. However, the transition to live with the virus in the new normal will have to start with vaccinations.
In such a scenario, people will be allowed to go about their daily lives but will have to adhere to strict standard operating procedures, said Medical Practitioners Coalition Association of Malaysia president Dr Raj Kumar Maharajah.
“We will need to maintain our personal hygiene, wear masks and practise social distancing whenever possible.
“If we feel sick, we need to quarantine ourselves, ” he said.