Malaysia needs 200 more neurology specialists, says Dr Noor Hisham | Malay Mail

Director General of Health Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said Malaysia needs 200 neurology specialists, up from the current total of 107, to ensure that the increased number of stroke patients would be adequately treated. — Picture by Miera Zulyana

GEORGE TOWN, April 20 — Malaysia needs 200 neurology specialists, up from the current total of 107, to ensure that the increased number of stroke patients would be adequately treated, said director-general of Health Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah. He said the current specialists comprised 50 specialists and trainees from the ministry, 33 specialists and trainees from university hospitals and 24 private sector specialists.“All general hospitals now have neurology specialists, except in Kedah and Perlis.

“We are training about 11 specialists and will place them at the two states in a year or two,” he told reporters after launching the First Malaysia Stroke Conference here today. — Bernama

Don't think that is sufficiently enough considering there are more mentally challenged in both the past & present regimes.

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