Implement a just culture

Managing the crisis: Many of the woes in the Health Ministry can be mitigated, if not resolved, by its technocrats at virtually zero cost.

THE ill-thought-out contract system of 2016 is the harbinger of the present “perceived shortages” of junior medical doctors in the country.

I believe the acute shortage of house officers in university hospitals can be resolved by circumventing the silo operations of the Health and Higher Education ministries, harmonising the distribution of house officers and medical officers, addressing salary implications for junior doctors, rectifying the maldistribution of the healthcare workforce, and reviewing the parallel pathway and Master of Medicine programmes.