The additional six-month contract extension limits contract workers from getting enough time and training for their specialist programmes, even if they are doing the parallel pathways.
The six-month contract follows a previous six-month contract given last April to 2,070 medical, dental, and pharmacy officers who completed their compulsory service.
MOH offered a one-year contract to nurses, microbiologists, biomedical officers, science officers, medical assistants, and medical laboratory technologists to help curb Covid-19.