A doctor also highlights the impact of a surgery backlog on cancer patients, while an overworked pharmacist talks about patients taking free medicines for granted.
Deregulation of medical practitioners’ consultation fees, jail for not issuing prescriptions upon request, drug price controls, promotion of contract government doctors, vaping regulations, mySalam, and health financing reform.
Health professionals across the board warn of lower morale among their junior counterparts and their imminent departure for the private sector and abroad.
Doctors, pharmacists, and dentists appointed into the public sector from January 1, 2020, will no longer receive a monthly RM750 Critical Service Incentive Payment (BIPK).