Doctors only need to do hospital and clinical duties

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Government doctors will soon no longer be required to take up administrative jobs to be considered for promotion.
Those concentrating on hospital and clinical work would have similar chances.
This follows the Government’s plan to release doctors from being tied up in administrative work, either as hospital administrators or in other administrative capacities, to enable them to concentrate fully on their hospital or clinical work.
Announcing this, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said, for the purpose, a separate service called the hospital administration service would be introduced.
“This new service must be filled up by professionals with medical background.
“But instead of being filled up by doctors, it will be opened to experienced medical officers and nurses with the required years of service.
“They can be trained either locally or overseas and can take over the administration of hospitals so that doctors, whose service is more needed in hospitals and clinics, will not be burdened with administrative jobs,” he told reporters after an official visit to the Health Ministry yesterday.
This, Abdullah said, was one of the approaches identified by the Government to overcome the shortage of doctors in the country.
The other measures include encouraging Malaysian doctors currently working overseas to return and taking in contract foreign doctors.