PETALING JAYA: The contracts of 10,000 medical, dental and pharmaceutical officers will be extended from two to four years.
Finance Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Abdul Aziz said a RM100 million allocation would also be set aside to sponsor specialist programmes for 3,000 contract doctors and dentists.
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