PETALING JAYA: Students from poorer backgrounds interested in pursuing medicine, dentistry and pharmacy will face a big barrier to their ambition if the Public Service Department (JPA) were to end sponsorships for these courses.
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim must make good on his word that JPA sponsorships for the programmes would continue, former scholars said.
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