Hospitals still short of doctors


PETALING JAYA: Five years after the Covid-19 pandemic and nearly a decade since the introduction of the contract system, some public healthcare facilities continue to grapple with chronic manpower shortages and long wait times for treatment.

Patients at government facilities can face wait times of up to six hours, with doctors at understaffed clinics sometimes seeing between 80 and 100 patients in a single day.

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