More foreign docs sought
From The Star
SINTOK: The Health Ministry will recruit more foreign doctors to overcome the shortage of medical officers in the country, Deputy Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Suleiman Mohamed said.
He said the country needed another 1,000 doctors but only managed to recruit 275 foreign doctors on a two-year contract in a recent exercise.
“There will be a second round of recruitment,” he said after launching a health festival at Universiti Utara Malaysia here yesterday.
Dr Suleiman said the foreign doctors recruited in the exercise so far were from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Indonesia.
