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THE DOCTORS
By Dr. Mahathir Mohamad on August 21, 2009 11:50 AM | Permalink | Comments (9) | TrackBacks (0)

///7. The nation loses a lot when the people we train opts to work in other countries./// –TDM

Over the last four decades two million Malaysians left the country. Government policies made these people leave. But the government including under TDM reign considers them good riddance, just because they were born the wrong race and refused to be assimilated as Muslims. It cannot be true that TDM now thinks that the government should change its discriminatory policies so that people trained or otherwise would consider this place their home, and that they have a shared destiny.

If the nation loses when their people work in other country, what double standards TDM wants to practice by attracting foreign doctors to practice in Malaysia. Is it not beggaring those countries who trained doctors to practice in Malaysia?

///8. But the association of doctors make matters worse by refusing entry to foreign doctors to practice. It wants to keep the opportunities for making money in this country to its members only. It does not mind Malaysian doctors going out but foreign doctors may not come in. Only if they work with the Government can they come in./// –TDM

The association of doctors should know whether there has been a shortage of doctors in the private sector, or that they could not cope with the demand. If they allowed doctors to work for the Government to come in then the people cannot complain that the association had prevented them the opportunity to avail themselves of medical attention.

///9. The flow is one-way. Our doctors can leave the country but foreign doctors cannot replace them. We are losing the brains that we develop without the foreign brain coming in.///– TDM

The doctors who leave the country are in the first place having left the government service. Their places at the government are allowed to be filled by foreigners. If some of our doctors do not consider private sector practice attractive, possibly because of too many doctors in the private sector, allowing foreign doctors into private practice would just aggravate the situation. It might not be in the country interest to have foreigner doctors replacing our own in the private sector. Sounds like another Project M scheme involving NEWMalay doctors that TDM is promoting.

///10. Despite all the Government’s efforts we are losing especially the much-needed specialists.///– TDM

Malaysia is losing much-needed specialists because this is a low income country. Malaysia per capita GDP is only one-fifth that of Singapore even when we have 50 times more natural resources, if the location of Singapore is counted as her natural resources. The government especially those having some RM 500 billion oil revenue had not been able to make this a high income country though it made many cronies billionaires.

///11. There is something wrong here. If the Malaysian Medical Association (MMA) wishes to close the country to outsiders then it should also object to Malaysian doctors from leaving the country. As it is the MMA seem to be wanting to have their cake and to eating it as well.///– TDM

No government in the world, other than those dictatorial regimes would bar their citizens from leaving their country in pursuit of what they choose to do. MMA has not the authority to do so, and should not take the blame for it. It is UMNO government that has failed the country which have caused not only doctors to leave, but other trained people not to return to this land.

Malaysia has succeeded in attracting cheap labours from failed governments, and at the same time made its citizens getting used to living a low income existence. Further, they cannot have the security that Malaysians used to enjoy in the earlier days of independence.

///12. I am not suggesting that as we have embraced globalisation and the free flow of capital etc that we should now allow foreign doctors to come and open their hospitals here. But I do think that if local hospitals need to employ foreign doctors then they should be allowed to.///– TDM

Doctors serving the government should be allowed some hours serving in the private sector. But employing directly foreign doctors into private hospital would not help government Malaysians doctors improve their earning capacity, and thus making their stay with government tolerable.