The whole scenario, no doubt, looks ridiculous and grotesque when the application of medical graduates has to be decided by the Public Services Department/JPA.
Being inefficient, insensitive, ignorant and bureaucratic, JPA creates such a mess that it has caused such a drop of medical graduates entering housemanship as it is frustrasting and depressing to wait for 6-9 months for the placement.
Meanwhile, many enter other lines of job and get attached. Based on the report, the number of medical graduates entering housemanship declined from 6136 in 2019 to 5113 in 2020; 3245 in 2022 and 3271 in 2023.
According to Sarawak SUPP Dudong branch advisor Datuk Dr Soon Choon Teck, the management board of local hospitals like the practices in UK, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore should be given the autonomy to do the hiring or firing of medical staff.
Dr Soon who had the experiences of convenience when his application was approved by the State director of medical services at that time in view of the hassle the medical graduates are facing now and the acute shortage of housemen and medical officers in Sarawak sees the urgency of healthcare autonomy to us.
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