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I find this piece of news rather amusing, showing pure stupidity of our politicians. I wonder whether our politicians actually have brains or they left it back home before standing for the election. Singapore will be laughing and ever willing to accept our doctors with open arms.

Our government likes to take short-cuts to solve problems. In the late 1990’s , they decided to open private medical colleges to increase the number of doctors. Following that, private medical colleges grew like mushrooms everywhere and now we see the effect of it. We have the highest number of medical schools in the world , percapita of the population (1 med school for every million)Many unqualified students are being made doctors and they are now flooding the MOH and bringing down the standard of care to a new low-level. If you don’t believe me, just ask anyone of the senior consultants in the Ministry.

Many of this doctors, irrespective whether they have the merit or not, spent their own money to become a doctor. 2 years housemanship and 3 years compulsory service is adequate to train them to be a safe doctor. That was the purpose of the compulsory service. Now , what is this crap about 10 years service??????? 

How can the government force the doctors who studied with their own money to work for them? If they were paid by the tax payers, then it is fine with me. 

What amuses me further is the statement given by DG in Malaysiakini yesterday. He claim that there will never be a surplus of doctors by 2015 because even if we achieve a ratio of 1:600, there will always be shortage in rural areas. I simply don’t understand the logic!!!! Does he know the difference between “maldistribution and “shortage”. If that is so, then why are we producing that many doctors ?

Medical schools have become a lucrative business and the businessman are not bothered about the quality. They are only interested in “MONEY”………

Again, please read my MMA articles page for what I have predicted long time ago.

Govt may extend compulsory public service for doctors

PUTRAJAYA: The Government proposes to extend the compulsory public service for doctors to five or 10 years from the current three to overcome the annual shortage of doctors in its hospitals, Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Senator Datuk T. Murugiah said Wednesday.

Last year alone, the country faced a shortage of 5,000 doctors, he added.

“Every year, we face a shortage of doctors because they serve with the Government for only five years — two years on housemanship and three years on compulsory service.

“This system has been in use since 1971 and, as such, we should have a new mechanism to resolve the problem,” he told reporters after a working visit to the Public Service Commission (PSC), here.

Murugiah said the Government’s adoption of the proposal would mean that the doctors would be able to garner more experience before they moved on to the private sector or set up their own practice.

“Doctors should not only think about profit. They also have to think about the country’s interests — your contribution to the country,” he said.

Murugiah said similar measures could also be applied in other disciplines where there was a shortage of personnel such as dentists and pharmacists.

However, he said, this was up to the Health Ministry, Economic Planning Unit (EPU) and the Public Service Department (PSD) to discuss and decide.

He also said that last year, the Government appointed 50,756 civil servants, including candidates for paramedical training, which exceeded the target of 50,000 appointments set by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.

A total of 7,785,262 applications were received and 358,366 people were called for interview but only 199,660 turned up for the interviews, he said. — Bernama