The Malaysian government plans to amend the Medical Act to recognize rejected specialists and surgeons in order to address the critical shortage of heart and lung surgeons in public service.
Critical shortage: There are only 14 heart and lung surgeons in public service now and several are retiring in a few years.KUALA LUMPUR: Thousands of patients needing government specialist healthcare can expect a reprieve in June with Parliament expected to amend the Medical Act so that specialists and surgeons who had earlier been rejected can be recognised and help perform much-needed operations.
“Given the critical shortage of medical specialists in public hospitals, the ministry intends to ask the Cabinet to expedite the proposed amendments, hopefully in June’s third session of Parliament. There are only 14 heart and lung surgeons in public service now and several are retiring in a few years, while there are over 1,500 heart and lung disease patients urgently needing surgery.
“This goes against the principle of the partnership and work undertaken at the request of the ministry and places trained excellent surgeons in an untenable, distressing and unfair position,” Prof Parks wrote. This means there are now 12 newly-qualified Malaysian heart and lung surgeons but they are in a limbo as they remain unrecognised by MMC.
MMC is headed by the Health director-general and comprises appointed and elected medical professionals from the government, private sector and universities.
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