Tag: government doctors

25 September 2023

Health Workers’ Mental Issues A ‘Red Flag’: MMA

MMA tells the government to view CodeBlue's survey findings on mental health issues among public health care professionals as a "red flag". "Even a single health care worker admitting to struggling with mental health issues is a cause for concern."

12 September 2023

Malaysia

New MMA President Prioritises Government Doctors, GP Issues With TPAs

MMA's newly elected president Dr Azizan Abdul Aziz is prioritising issues involving government doctors, as well as private GP issues, like the fee schedule and TPAs. She also wants an update from MOH on implementation of reforms in the Health White Paper.

17 July 2023

Malaysia

Kota Melaka MP Demands Action Over Doctor Shortages In Melaka Hospital

Kota Melaka MP Khoo Poay Tiong, a government backbencher from the DAP, wants a public explanation from MOH about the real situation of doctor shortages in Melaka Hospital that has already begun cutting services. "This is quite a serious issue."

16 February 2023

Malaysia

Government Doctors List 12 Demands To Avert Potential Strike

The escalating threat of industrial action from the public health service comes after years of low wages, unclear career pathways, increasing staff shortages, and broken facilities that have left the public health care system in a state of crisis.

9 February 2023

Letter

Open Letter To PMX DSAI And YBMK Dr Zaliha: Reform Malaysian Health Care – Dr Tachdjian

"There needs to be serious, committed action by JPA and MOF to support MOH in health care reforms. From human resource to facility and infrastructure – there's only so much we can do with limited finances" – specialist doctor, MOH hospital, Sabah.

7 February 2023

Malaysia

MCA: Address Crisis In Public Health Care System

MCA deputy treasurer-general Lawrence Low tells the government to take CodeBlue's survey among health care workers seriously and to increase MOH's 2023 budget, saying: "Will the government only take action after things go out of control?"

7 February 2023

Malaysia

‘Stop Lying To The Public That We Have Enough Doctors’: Contract Medical Officer, Perak

A UD43 contract doctor in Perak — who earns a basic monthly salary of RM4,000+ (~RM5,000 net, including allowances and minus other deductions) — wants a 100% pay hike. The MO plans to quit once they have enough money to start a business outside medicine.

2 February 2023

Malaysia

‘My Nurses Can’t Cope. They Are Taking Care Of So Many Babies’: Medical Officer, Selangor

An MO details how in an MOH hospital in Selangor where she served in 2022, the acute (critically ill) section of the neonatal ICU had one nurse to three babies, instead of one-to-one care. She also says young children placed in adult ICUs get traumatised.

1 February 2023

Letter

Compensate Doctors For Inconvenience From Last-Minute Postings — MMA

Arrangements to relocate to another state requires advance notice to manage financial commitments like rental payments and other bills, make travel arrangements, find accommodation, pack and for some, even make arrangements to care for loved ones.

9 January 2023

Malaysia

Not Only Junior Doctors, Specialists In Public Sector Underpaid And Overworked: MMA

Doctors also have family and financial commitments and, “for the sake of their sanity”, need work-life balance that has been non-existent for most in public health care.

Tag: government doctors

Health Workers’ Mental Issues A ‘Red Flag’: MMA

New MMA President Prioritises Government Doctors, GP Issues With TPAs

Kota Melaka MP Demands Action Over Doctor Shortages In Melaka Hospital

Government Doctors List 12 Demands To Avert Potential Strike

Open Letter To PMX DSAI And YBMK Dr Zaliha: Reform Malaysian Health Care – Dr Tachdjian

MCA: Address Crisis In Public Health Care System

‘Stop Lying To The Public That We Have Enough Doctors’: Contract Medical Officer, Perak

‘My Nurses Can’t Cope. They Are Taking Care Of So Many Babies’: Medical Officer, Selangor

Compensate Doctors For Inconvenience From Last-Minute Postings — MMA

Not Only Junior Doctors, Specialists In Public Sector Underpaid And Overworked: MMA

Landmark UN Report Highlights Malaysia’s Mandatory Death Penalty Abolition For Drug Offences

Budget 2024 Wish List: Health Care Human Resource Development, Rural Health Services, NCDs — MMA

At Selayang Hospital’s Understaffed Emergency Department, Doctors Allege Abuse By Patients’ Relatives

MMA Demands Zero Tolerance For Health Worker Abuse