Medical campus: Team in Ireland

NST: A Malaysian fact-finding team is in Ireland to explore the viability of an Irish medical campus here.
It will also study options for Malaysian doctors to do their postgraduate courses and training in Ireland.
Members will also gather information on why many Malaysian scholars preferred to stay behind and not return to serve the nation.
The nine-member team, headed by Universiti Malaya Faculty of Medicine dean Prof Datuk Dr Mohd Amin Jalaludin, left on Sunday.
Deputy Higher Education Minister Datuk Fu Ah Kiow said the Irish had expressed an interest in setting up a medical campus besides doing research here.
"The team has gone to explore the opportunities and gather information from the universities concerned."
On Malaysians doing postgraduate courses in Ireland, he said the team would look at what some of the medical institutions there were offering.
The NST highlighted on Nov 6 that as many as 100 Malaysians trained in Ireland as doctors at a cost of between RM60 million and RM100 million had turned their backs on the country.