Nurse: My salary doesn’t match the workload


Tough job: A file photo of a care home volunteer pushing a wheelchair-bound resident into his room. A recent report found that care workers, including in the health sector, are planning to leave their jobs within five years.

PETALING JAYA: Imagine that you are required to work for more than 45 hours a week and then battling patients who refuse immune shots for their children.

This is a normal week for Sara, 35, who has been working in the public healthcare sector as a nurse for more than a decade.

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