‘We don’t have enough doctors’

Hear our pleas: A filepic showing contract doctors from Hospital Kuala Lumpur during the protest on Monday calling for job security and better career opportunities.

PETALING JAYA: The problem the country is facing with contract doctors is not due to the oversupply of medical graduates but the insufficient number of posts available for housemanship, medical experts say.

Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Faculty of Medicine, Obstetrician and Gynaecologist senior consultant Prof Dr Zaleha Abdullah Mahdy pointed out that the country’s doctor to population ratio was alarmingly imbalanced.