RM300m to train health staff

Star: KUALA TERENGGANU: The Health Ministry has been allocated RM300mil under the Ninth Malaysia Plan for in-house training for health services staff to develop human capital.
Secretary-general, Datuk Dr Mohamed Nasir Mohamed Ashraf, said yesterday that it could not be denied that human capital was important in the development of a country.
“This has been proven in developed countries where a nation's output depends almost totally on human capital,” he said at the convocation of the Nursing College and state-level Quality Day of the ministry here.
A total of 243 trainee nurses received their diplomas after completing a three-year course.
Dr Mohamed Nasir told the nurses that completing the course did not mean that their learning should stop because learning was a life-long process.
“Knowledge and skills must be enhanced through advanced courses,” he said.