Danger of losing our frontliners in the future

I’VE been a medical officer (MO) for the past six years in a paediatric department. Currently I serve in a tertiary centre in Sarawak. Pre-viously I served in a specialist district hospital for four years. I have been told that I am lucky to have been born two to three years earlier than my colleagues and friends, as I escaped the start of the contract MO system.

It was in that specialist district hospital that I became friends with one of the MOs there who is now in her second contract period.