Dr Tharmaseelan: There are doctors waiting for their postings for months - they should be quickly recruited to begin their service to the nation.
THERE is no time to waste in a crisis.
Urging the Health Ministry to pull out all the stops to help the nation’s frontliners fight the pandemic, the Malaysian Medical Association (MMA) has suggested that some 1,000 of the nation’s medical graduates still waiting for their postings be mobilised together with medical and nursing students, as well as medical assistants, with basic medical knowledge and training to help on the ground with contact tracing as soon as possible.
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Dr Tharmaseelan: There are doctors waiting for their postings for months - they should be quickly recruited to begin their service to the nation.
Dr Raj Kumar: Final year medical students may need to concentrate on their final exams and there is no hurry to absorb them into the system as they may pose a danger not only to themselves but also to the patients.
Dr Subramaniam: These plans must be studied in advance prior to the implementation of such a system to avoid any backlash.
Tired and overworked: The MMA is calling on the ministry to consider allowing healthcare students to help medical frontliners who are struggling to cope with the high number of Covid-19 cases. - File photo
