PENANG: The Health Ministry plans to attract more non-Malays to join the nursing profession as 80% of the country’s 60,000 nurses are Malays.
Describing the gross imbalance as unhealthy, its parliamentary secretary Datuk Lee Kah Choon said the ministry would embark on a publicity and promotion campaign to target fresh school leavers.
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