Health D-G: We want Malaysian doctors to come home

NST: KUALA LUMPUR: Do not give mixed messages and confuse Malaysian doctors as well as medical students studying or working overseas.
This is the advice given by Director-General of Health Tan Sri Dr Ismail Merican to individuals visiting medical students in Britain and Ireland.
“While Health Minister Datuk Dr Chua Soi Lek and I have met Malaysian doctors, specialists and students studying and working in these countries and advised them to return, there are individuals who go and say they can carry on staying there.”
Dr Ismail, who is upset over this turn of events, said they took great pains since November last year to visit Malaysian doctors and students, make presentations and convince them that there were tremendous opportunities for them back home.