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2023-11-13 15:16:55
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Mohd Zulhusni bin Mat Rani
Healthcare, Doctors
13 November 23
2023-11-07
Malaysia
Black and white
New Straits Times
The Health Ministry is facing a growing list of issues. One is the management of public healthcare. But this is a Leader for another time. For now, it is the ministry’s mismanagement of doctors specifically and public health workers generally. The Malaysian Medical Association (MMA) is up in arms and so are the doctors. Things were so bad in February that doctors were rumoured to be preparing to go on strike in June. We are glad they didn’t because such a move would be a wrong committed against their patients, the very people they took an oath to treat. But what the ministry is doing — or more accurately is not doing — is wrong, too.