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Something from the news today... THESTAR 26/5/05

"Specialists, medical officers and housemen in government hospitals will get a huge jump in their daily on-call allowances beginning June 1.

Announcing this yesterday, Health Minister Datuk Dr Chua Soi Lek said the RM75 allowance for medical officers would be doubled to RM150 while housemen would get a 400% increase.

"This is good news for the 9,000 medical professionals. They have been awaiting for this raise," he said. Dr Chua said that there had been no review of the on-call allowances for the past 20 years.

"We made a request for an increase last year and we got it this year. We must thank the Cabinet Committee on Promotions and Salaries chaired by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi for this," he said.

The increase was expected to benefit 7,000 medical officers, 700 specialists and 1,000 housemen working in the hospitals, he told reporters after witnessing the handing-over of the RM687mil Serdang Hospital to the ministry.

With the new on-call allowance, housemen can take home an average of RM700 to RM800 more a month. Currently, they get an average of between RM200 and RM250 monthly as they are paid only RM25 for each on-call duty.

On the average, they do between seven and 13 on-call duties a month.
When told about the increase in allowance, the doctors interviewed were elated, saying that it was long overdue as they were burdened with a heavy workload and long working hours. "

haks.. it was indeed good news to us doctors and i reckon the house officers should be thankful for the action. Kaya wooo.. kalau kat medical , at least cam EOD call , so you get like RM1500 extra for calls. Untungla tu.. berbaloi kerja clerk patient tengah2 malam.. Its definitely better than the rm25 i received per night for the calls i did during housemanship...

I remembered we the IMU delegate fought for this issue during our medical students conference presentation. Eventhough the memorandum did not arrive to the ministers door , but the sentiment was there. I applaud the new Health Minister as he knows what the doctor's problems are. Kudos.

p/s banyak betul dapat sms suruh belanja... haks..