Do Not Complain To The Press, Says Health Deputy Minister

TANAH MERAH, April 20 (Bernama) -- The Health Ministry Thursday warned its employees, including doctors and nurses, against going to the press with their grouses and complaints concerning the ministry.
Its Deputy Minister, Datuk Dr Abdul Latiff Ahmad said stern action would be taken against any staff who did so.
"If (they) have problems, complaints, etc, communicate with the people at the top, we will take (necessary) action," he told a press conference after launching the silver jubilee celebration of the Tanah Merah Hospital here Thursday.
Dr Abdul Latiff said the move did not mean that the ministry curtailed freedom of the press but that the ministry's staff had ethics to observe adding that pharmacists, doctors and nurses were also bound by their respective professional ethics and bodies.
In another development, he said the ministry was planning to increase the number of male nurses in the country.
He added that more than 3,000 nurses were trained every year with only about 10 per cent of them comprising men.
"We will try to have more men to be trained as nurses because male patients are more comfortable and interact better with male nurses," he added.