KUALA LUMPUR: The number of family medicine specialists (FMS) in the country is still low compared to the actual need of one specialist per population of 50,000, while the ideal ratio is 1:4,000, says Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.
The Health director-general said that as of December 2021, there were only 924 FMS in the country, including 625 currently serving in 397 health clinics of the Ministry of Health (MOH).
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