Health Ministry to address overwork and bullying claims, says Dzulkefly

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The Health Ministry is looking into several manpower matters, including the issue of 30-hour on-call shifts for doctors, as well as the issue of alleged bullying at its facilities.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/4m3uspjf  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Dato Sri, what is the result of the special investigation report on the case of the bully doctor in Lahat, Dato?

00:06We have just started the investigation, I just met with the director, Tan Sri Burhan,

00:14to get a little bit of information to know the stage of their investigation to start.

00:26We have set up an independent panel from the KKM.

00:36We hope that in terms of term of reference, the POR will be placed on the issue of bullying the doctor.

00:48But also directly or indirectly, it is also bullying in a more general way.

01:00Not only the death of the doctor, but also the entire bullying case.

01:06Especially those that we are familiar with, our facilities and the countries that we have a list of

01:13that will be continued for another 3 months for us to see the entire country and the entire issue of bullying.

01:22That's our job.

01:24There are calls for review of the 30-hour long on-call hours for the KKM. Look into this.

01:32We are now looking, we are now having a more generic question of supply and demand of our human resource deployment.

01:48Within that framework, we will be able to address specific issues like that.

01:57You may or may not quite realise there is this issue, it's not like everywhere.

02:03This is why we've got to understand the gaps, we've got to understand where the shortfalls are,

02:10and then we've got to give the correct prescription before the prescription may not be.

02:16So that's very important.

02:18So all these things, and in terms of the budget, we hope to be able to reflect over the concern of our healthcare workers and our staff.

02:31We hope so too.

02:33Due consideration be given to our healthcare workers in our facilities.

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