Friday, April 30, 2010

Good governance will ease brain drains and split of Malaysian

Dean: New Doctors Must Do Compulsory Service Before Working Abroad
http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/general.php

The suggested imposition requiring newly-minted doctors from public university to work abroad immediately after graduation is acceptable if it was a part of their prior conditions of acceptance.

If not, they should be free to work anywhere they like.

The 'exodus' of these new 'doctors' should be viewed seriously as it means, apart from the obvious gap in salary in other country, the majority problems could have been lack of proper training environment, and most importantly, fair & consistent mechanism to recognize outstanding performers based solely on '1Malaysia' principle and spirit.

The Hospital Queen Elizabeth in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, is a good case study where the working environment in terms of working space, efficiency, and facilities has been 'blamed' as the main problem in attracting, or retaining, more medical personnel to the hospital.

The MOH or the Government must look at all angles to address the problems of brain drains especially on why there is an imbalance of Chinese or Indian Malaysian working in the public sector where it's currently dominated by so-called bumiputra.

The government should waive the outdated policy, of dividing of its people by a mere bumiputra and non-bumiputra criteria, for the sake of 1Malaysia.

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