MMA: Surplus of medical grads due to poor past policies

PETALING JAYA: The overproduction of medical graduates and over 22,000 doctors on contract with the government are the result of poor policies of the past, says the Malaysian Medical Association (MMA).

Its president Dr Koh Kar Chai called on the present government to rectify these past mistakes, saying that the current lot of contract doctors arose out of the fact that there was a mushrooming of medical schools and medical programmes over the years.