Liow: Recruitment of medical practitioners to be made easy

PUTRAJAYA: The Health Ministry has formed a special task force to expedite the recruitment of doctors in the country.

Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said the task force, led by ministry secretary-general Datuk Seri Mohd Nasir Mohd Ashraf, aimed to cut the recruitment process from two or three months to a month or less.

“We have been talking about the shortage of medical practitioners in the country for a long time,” he told reporters after the ministry’s monthly gathering here yesterday.

Oh Dear! I thought that the problem is more efflux rather than influx. Maybe the situation won't be as bad if people who are planning to leave the service are induced to stay rather than recruiting sub-standard doctors from abroad.