MMC needs some healing

According to Senator Dr Lingeshwaran R. Arunasalam, this is a great opportunity to set the direction right again so that we can produce more specialists to meet the needs of the population and continue to deliver safe, timely, efficient, equitable, effective and patient-centric healthcare.

THE Parallel Pathway Programme (PPP) debacle and the inconsistency of the Malaysian Medical Council (MMC) with regards to the recognition of the specialists training programmes has been discomforting.

First, the country needs more specialists. The ratio of specialists per population does not lie. It is more critical for certain fields but there is an overall shortage.