“We need more specialists and more doctors. If we don’t provide security of tenure to these officers, they will leave the service,” Khairy Jamaluddin says.
A total of 3,586 medical officers, 300 dental officers, and 300 pharmacy officers, totalling 4,186 of 10,583 officers who have completed their compulsory service, were recommended for permanent positions.
We hope that these measures will not include the retraction of other allowances, such as the critical allowance which has been reinstated early this year.
Despite the acute shortage of doctors, long waiting times for a simple outpatient appointment, longer waiting times for non-emergency surgery, these young doctors are not guaranteed a permanent position in the public sector.