Tag: strike

17 February 2023

Strikes Must Be Planned With List Of Demands: Ipoh Timor MP Tells Health Workers

Ipoh Timor MP Howard Lee tells health workers to announce any strike in advance to extract concessions through negotiations. He also claims "certain groups" in MOH are blocking change and that Dr Zaliha is the first minister to admit there's a problem.

17 February 2023

Malaysia

MMA Schomos: The Ethical And Moral Duty To Strike

“Doctors have an ethical duty towards their patients. But it will not be long before this duty towards their patients becomes an ethical and moral duty to strike" – MMA Schomos, pointing out nothing much has changed after contract doctors' 2021 protest.

17 February 2023

Malaysia

Health Worker Strike Spectre Reveals Surprising Public Support

Most Malaysians commenting on Dr Zaliha Mustafa’s video, urging staff in the public health service not to go on strike, appear to be sympathetic towards health workers, as they tell the health minister to solve the urgent crisis in the health care system.

16 February 2023

Malaysia

Segamat MP Wants Bipartisan Response To Health Worker Shortages

Segamat MP R. Yuneswaran calls for the expedited formation of a parliamentary special select committee on public health to propose solutions to congestion in public hospitals caused by staff shortages.

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.

15 February 2023

Malaysia

Strike Won’t Solve Problems, Be More Mature: Zaliha Tells Government Health Workers

Health Minister Dr Zaliha Mustafa tells aggrieved government health care workers to be more "mature" and to avoid going on strike, saying this will not solve problems, while DG Hisham says those planning to strike should not compromise patient safety.

14 February 2023

Malaysia

Opposition Leader Slams Government For Doing ‘Nothing’ For Contract Doctors

Opposition Leader Hamzah Zainudin criticises the Pakatan Harapan (PH) government for not addressing contract doctor issues raised by Hartal Doktor Kontrak after PH's "heroics" when it was in opposition.

14 February 2023

Letter

Public Health Care Workers Have Reached Their Limits — MMA

MMA tells MOH, MOF, and JPA to take rumours of health care workers going on strike seriously and speed up health care reforms.

15 November 2021

Malaysia

Contract Doctors Threaten Strike In December

Hartal Doktor Kontrak will organise its second work strike if the government does not offer permanent appointments and EPF benefits to all contract doctors.

26 July 2021

Letter

The Unheard Side Of Hartal — Dr Tango

Seeing patients, taking their blood pressure, taking their bloods, doing all paperwork…I can’t do it alone. But I will have to if everyone takes off.

Tag: strike

Strikes Must Be Planned With List Of Demands: Ipoh Timor MP Tells Health Workers

MMA Schomos: The Ethical And Moral Duty To Strike

Health Worker Strike Spectre Reveals Surprising Public Support

Segamat MP Wants Bipartisan Response To Health Worker Shortages

Government Doctors List 12 Demands To Avert Potential Strike

Strike Won’t Solve Problems, Be More Mature: Zaliha Tells Government Health Workers

Opposition Leader Slams Government For Doing ‘Nothing’ For Contract Doctors

Public Health Care Workers Have Reached Their Limits — MMA

Contract Doctors Threaten Strike In December

The Unheard Side Of Hartal — Dr Tango

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