Materia Medica Malaysiana

Government has not recognised any medical university in China Kuala Lumpur: The government has yet to accord recognition to any medical degree from Chinese universities, the Dewan Rakyat was told Wednesday.

Parliamentary secretary to the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Khamsiah Yeop said, however, that the government had recognised medical degrees from eight universities in Taiwan.

“As such, medical practitioners from these universities can register with the Malaysian medical Council without any additional condition,” she said when replying to Tiong Thai King (BN-Lanang).

To a supplementary question from Datuk Yap Pian Hon (BN-Serdang) who wanted to know whether the government would speed up the evaluation of medical degrees from China to overcome the shortage of doctors in Malaysia, Khamsiah said the matter would continue to be studied.

She said that to overcome the shortage of doctors, medical practitioners from universities not recognised by the government would be allowed to sit for the qualifying examination for the Bachelor of Medicine degree to register in Malaysia.

She also said that 58 Malaysians working as doctors overseas had returned to serve the nation under the Malaysian Citizens Vision Movement Programme. Of this, 29 had registered with the Health Ministry.