Army scholarships to get more doctors among ranks

Star: The armed forces is introducing a medical scholarship scheme to overcome the shortage of doctors among its ranks.
Chief of Defence Forces Admiral Tan Sri Mohamed Anwar Mohamed Nor said that the shortage was so acute that the armed forces now had to get army doctors from Pakistan.
“The armed forces medical team is still short of 40 doctors. To overcome the shortage, we have received 15 army doctors from Pakistan and eight more will be arriving soon,” he told reporters after inspecting a passing-out parade of 40 officers at the Armed Forces Health Training Institute at Terendak Camp in Sungai Udang here.
The officers comprised 24 medical officers, eight dental officers, five general duty officers and three special tasks officers.
Admiral Mohamed Anwar said armed forces doctors would have the opportunity to go abroad for specialist training and would be promoted accordingly.
They would receive incentives like military and critical call allowances, besides serving in battlefields.
He attributed the shortage of doctors in the armed forces to lack of interest among medical graduates to join the forces and ineffective marketing.
He also said there were 40 women doctors serving with the armed forces.