MMA: Let housemen, medical students join Covid-19 fight

Dr Tharmaseelan: There are doctors waiting for their postings for months - they should be quickly recruited to begin their service to the nation.

THERE is no time to waste in a crisis.

Urging the Health Ministry to pull out all the stops to help the nation’s frontliners fight the pandemic, the Malaysian Medical Association (MMA) has suggested that some 1,000 of the nation’s medical graduates still waiting for their postings be mobilised together with medical and nursing students, as well as medical assistants, with basic medical knowledge and training to help on the ground with contact tracing as soon as possible.