The High Performance Housemanship Programme (HPHP) allows house officers to complete their housemanship within 18 months compared to the conventional two years.
Contract medical officers, besides only getting a two-year contract without guarantee of extension, are also not eligible to apply for the local Masters programme.
The pandemic we face is challenging not only due to its virulence, but also its effect on health care services that was already overworked, understaffed and overstretched.
The former DPM also asked the government to ensure that frontliners’ families are taken care of during the pandemic, such as their child care and studies.
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.