MMA hits out at inefficient, insensitive govt for rejecting higher on-call payment

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It describes the health ministry’s move to maintain the RM9.16 hourly rate as an insult, noting that there are waiters who get paid a better rate.

The Malaysian Medical Association had been pushing for a raise in the on-call rates for doctors as it had been the same for a decade.

MMA president Dr Azizan Abdul Aziz said the government’s “outright rejection” of the proposal, to increase public healthcare doctors’ weekend on-call allowance from the current hourly rate of RM9.16 to RM25, was “utterly disappointing”.

 

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