PETALING JAYA: Doctors and medical groups say the Health Ministry's explainer for on-call allowances, are 'out of touch with reality' say doctors.
PETALING JAYA: Doctors and medical groups say the Health Ministry's explainer for on-call allowances, are"out of touch with reality" say doctors.
The Health Ministry said on-call rate was paid on a 15-hour-per-day basis sans the regular working hours.Dr Timothy Cheng, an orthopaedic surgeon at a government hospital, said the on-call claim issue involved mostly medical officers and specialists who were at the early stages of their pay scale. The Malaysian Medical Association , the Islamic Medical Association of Malaysia , Hartal Doktor Kontrak and the Malaysian Medics International in a joint statement yesterday, urged the government to retract its statement, adding that the ministry's explanation is irresponsible and contains"inaccurate" and"misleading facts."
"According to the maximum payscale, a UD52 officer or specialist will only be able to make RM17,299 if they had remained on the same level for 22 years," the groups said, furnishing a photo of a pay slip of a UD52 officer with a salary of RM11,821. "As it said, the last time the on-call rate was increased was in 2012 . Is it right that 11 years have gone by without any increment as medical inflation has been rising at 9% per annum.
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