Doctors agree to return home
posted in - Dobbs, - General |After the previous post on RM100 million down the drain which provoked a lot of discussion recently, it has been reported today that the doctors have agree to return home.
For years, more than 100 Malaysian doctors educated at government cost in Ireland and England had refused to return, citing poor prospects here.
Two weeks ago, the situation changed, with many agreeing to fly back for good.
All it took was a talk with Health director-general Datuk Dr Ismail Merican, who convinced them that the going would be good for them here.
He told them the Malaysian healthcare system was being reformed to emphasise sub-speciality services.
“I gave them the assurance that they will not face problems getting placements and recognition of training received in Dublin and the United Kingdom,” he told the New Straits Times.
But there is a condition: Some will only return after completing training to become specialists and sub-specialists.
The decision augurs well for medical services in Malaysia as many of those working there had become hospital heads of department.
“Some of them have even been given the honour of setting up units in hospitals. Because of this, they have the experience to contribute towards the expansion of sub-speciality services in Malaysia,” he said.
I wonder whether they will still have to serve out the 10 years (3 years compulsory service and 7 years bond) agreed upon in their bond? And how long more will it take for them to complete their training to become specialists and sub-specialists? Agreeing is one thing, but let’s wait and see whether they actually return to serve out their government service.
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April 25th, 2006 at 6:38 am
Yummy, do join us in the MMR Forums: in the general forum you don’t have to use your real identity, and can use a nickname e.g. Yummy ;). Overseas Malaysian Doctors are also invited to join in the Doctors only section (when you use the Dobbs registration form, just fill in in MMC Reg No with your GMC Reg No.). If comment threads get too long in the MMR we close them and encourage further discussion in the forums as otherwise loading the page will take too long. Registration with the Doctors only section will require you to use your Real name but you don’t have to join this section if you don’t want to.
So feel free to register with the MMR forums.
April 25th, 2006 at 6:37 am
quoting Yummy “As for stopping loan defaulters going overseas I said something about this (with my tongue in cheek) in the other forum, I can scarcely believe it to be true. If it is true, is the public services department making policy after reading these blogs? I think we should be told (and can I claim consultancy fee?)”
Anything can be “true” or “made to look true” in Bolehland. Let me recount a story how badly I was treated when someone in rural Brazil pickpocketed my passport in 1993 (when I was doing my “grand” budget backpacking adventure in South America). There, one cannot exchange money or travel internally without a passport ID. The first sec of the embassy who dealt with me was an arrogant Chinese Muslim who first told me off for losing my passport.
Next he made it so hard for me to get papers that out of desperation, I meditated and prayed for an idea and, after 10 days in Manaus (the ex rubber capital of the world on the Amazon), I was able to retrieve my passport from the underworld network within 24 hours of implementing the plan! I continued and had a great time walking the Inca trail in Peru and visiting the Galapagos Islands(and before Mahatir too!)
The message is that when religious indoctrination creep into the civil service in a what is purported to be a secular constitution, individualised disasters have a potential to occur. Watch the case of the two university students charged for holding hands etc in public and the uproar about the true definition of (in)decency and how the cabinet has now claimed rights over it! This is a true circus.
Do we pay taxes for these clowns to entertain us or to run the government?
I think that should be the focus of disgruntled tax payers’ wrath, not the few PSD scholars.
Finally, I think some Malaysians are forward looking but many (and the government) are stuck in the caramel (melted sugar) created by the past leader and cannot extricate themselves.
April 25th, 2006 at 12:35 am
I believe my opinions on this website as to the matters discussed in both and this and the other forum have been exhaustively explored. I endevour not to lie when filling out forms, so forgive me when I decline to register for this site as some attempt to preserve my anonymity.
Despite my past criticisms I actually believe that Malaysia is a forward looking and relatively open society when compared to many other Asian countries (although that’s not saying very much) and wish it success and further development in the future. Good health and good luck in the persuit of happiness to all.
Au revoir
April 24th, 2006 at 8:53 am
*still waiting for a response from PSD people here* (with regards to the last point made my Yummy - not the consultancy fee of course)
April 21st, 2006 at 11:22 am
I think it’s unfair to assume that loan defaulters never had the intention of returning, most of you know my situation and my insistance that I never had anything other than good intentions when I signed the contract, just that things change. If you don’t like us stealing from the taxpayer, lobby the Govt., to make a compromise so we can pay back like a bank loan - a proportion every year.
Also it is not just Malaysia that pays for students to study that then leave the country. This phenomenon is happening the world over, UK grad going to US or austrailasia, germans/east europeans indians and asians coming to the UK, and many others. We now live in a global market where professionals are global players (as LF said in the other forum).
Again I agree with LF, why concentrate on a few bad apples when the barrel is rotten, there are solutions that are equitable, stop focusing on the problems.
As for stopping loan defaulters going overseas I said something about this (with my tongue in cheek) in the other forum, I can scarcely believe it to be true. If it is true, is the public services department making policy after reading these blogs? I think we should be told (and can I claim consultancy fee?)
April 20th, 2006 at 6:10 pm
May be counterproductive….
April 20th, 2006 at 5:49 pm
NST
News Updates
PSD loan defaulters to be barred from going overseas
20 Apr 2006
Hamidah Atan
PUTRAJAYA, Thurs:
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IN its latest move to make loan defaulters to pay up, the Public Service Department will soon refer its list of “blacklisted” students to the Immigration Department.
This means that they will be stopped at airports and barred from going overseas.