The housemanship training system and guidelines should be revised to ensure that young doctors are able to serve the country to the best of their abilities.
We have taken the first step in the long road to providing equitable terms of service for our junior doctors and equitable care for the rakyat. Let us now see it to its conclusion.
Representatives of the #HartalDoktokKontrak organisers previously described the solutions offered by the government as stated by Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin as short-sighted, done merely to appease disgruntled contract doctors.
Organisers of the hartal movement expect a strong majority of the country’s 23,077 contract doctors to take part in the strike as “things are more dire than before” and many are at breaking point.
Senior physician Dr Milton Lum says proving that a strike causes harm to patients will not be easy, as the onus is on the employer to look for a replacement doctor to care for the patient.