The recent grouse and widely published frustrating issues of the 128 students (who failed to get places to study medicine despite having achieved the required entry qualification criteria)confirms that the national system has not been right all along and had constantly and continuously being inefficient and ineffective to provide solutions to our national needs; yet, the Government had proceeded to implement those policies and procedures without any attempt to review or restructure the on-going-national program which are been tuned in a failure mode.
It is clear that the Government and the civil servants appointed to manned the strategic planning and implementation unit have never attempted to seek a long-term strategic solution to ensure a sustainable development programmes that would harness the human capital needed by the Governmental system to meet the needs and of the burgeoning population.
According to Datuk Chua Soi Lek, the Health Minister, Malaysia is currently facing an acute shortage of 5,000 nurses, 3,300 doctors, 700 medical specialists, 600 pharmacists and 500 dentists. Before Datuk Chua Soi Lek, we have Datuk Jimmy Chua who had made the similar complain of the shortages; and we can further trace back to the decades of similar problems. Yet, till today, we are repeating the same lingo and hearing the same old songs of despair.
In Malaysia, we now have 11 public universities as compared to only 4 universities in the 80s. Coupled with it is the availability of many private universities and colleges that had mushroom over the last few years. Yet the combined public universities intake for medical students for 2004 is a mere 779 students only. To include another 128 will totalled only 907 potential doctors/parmacists/dentists that will only be qualified to practice in 10 years time.
According to the Health Minister, it would be ideal if there was an increase of 1,000 doctors annually and that there is one doctor for every 650 people by 2015. The current ratio is one to 1,420 people.
With the statement from the Ministry of Health, the intake of medical students is far-off to meet the requirements. We can conclude that by 2015, we will still be having the same problem and it would be far more acute and critical.
Does it seem clear that the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health are having policies and programmes that do not work in congruent with each other; that those national programmes are the cause of the continuous systemic failure? Yet we find the Ministers and Prime Ministers playing to the tune of the press and coming up with "Tinkering" solutions to the problem - NOT LONG-TERM STRATEGIC PLAN.
In the same light, we read today in the news of a complain by a lawyer in a murder trial that the case will only come up for hearing in 2007, and the suspect will be placed in the jail/detention pending hearing till 2007. The reason given by the presiding judge is that his calender is full of cases until 2007; that is, there is a gross acute shortage of judges to effectively operate the judicial system and there is currently no solutions to the problem of the courts.
If the Government is willing to publish the survey reports on all the various other service departments, we will be hearing more of the problems of shortages.
IT IS A SYSTEMIC FAILURE!!! THE ABOVE DOES CONCLUDE THAT WE HAVE AN INEFFICIENT & INEFFECTIVE NATIONAL STRATEGIC PLANNING AND INPLEMENTATION UNITS AND THAT THE VARIOUS MINISTRIES HAVE PROGRAMMES THAT ENSURE FAILURES WILL SUCCEED.
WE NEED A TOTAL OVERHAUL OF THE SYSTEM not just 'TINKERING' with a problem. OUR CURRENT SOLUTION TO A PROBLEM BREEDS MANY NEW AND MORE ACUTE PROBLEMS. DOES THE GOVERNMENT HAVE THE GUTS TO PURGE THE INCOMPETENTS AND REVAMP THE SYSTEM OR DO WE PRAY TO GOD TO SEEK THE SOLUTION?
"GOD HELP THOSE WHO HELP THEMSELVES!"
It is clear that the Government and the civil servants appointed to manned the strategic planning and implementation unit have never attempted to seek a long-term strategic solution to ensure a sustainable development programmes that would harness the human capital needed by the Governmental system to meet the needs and of the burgeoning population.
According to Datuk Chua Soi Lek, the Health Minister, Malaysia is currently facing an acute shortage of 5,000 nurses, 3,300 doctors, 700 medical specialists, 600 pharmacists and 500 dentists. Before Datuk Chua Soi Lek, we have Datuk Jimmy Chua who had made the similar complain of the shortages; and we can further trace back to the decades of similar problems. Yet, till today, we are repeating the same lingo and hearing the same old songs of despair.
In Malaysia, we now have 11 public universities as compared to only 4 universities in the 80s. Coupled with it is the availability of many private universities and colleges that had mushroom over the last few years. Yet the combined public universities intake for medical students for 2004 is a mere 779 students only. To include another 128 will totalled only 907 potential doctors/parmacists/dentists that will only be qualified to practice in 10 years time.
According to the Health Minister, it would be ideal if there was an increase of 1,000 doctors annually and that there is one doctor for every 650 people by 2015. The current ratio is one to 1,420 people.
With the statement from the Ministry of Health, the intake of medical students is far-off to meet the requirements. We can conclude that by 2015, we will still be having the same problem and it would be far more acute and critical.
Does it seem clear that the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health are having policies and programmes that do not work in congruent with each other; that those national programmes are the cause of the continuous systemic failure? Yet we find the Ministers and Prime Ministers playing to the tune of the press and coming up with "Tinkering" solutions to the problem - NOT LONG-TERM STRATEGIC PLAN.
In the same light, we read today in the news of a complain by a lawyer in a murder trial that the case will only come up for hearing in 2007, and the suspect will be placed in the jail/detention pending hearing till 2007. The reason given by the presiding judge is that his calender is full of cases until 2007; that is, there is a gross acute shortage of judges to effectively operate the judicial system and there is currently no solutions to the problem of the courts.
If the Government is willing to publish the survey reports on all the various other service departments, we will be hearing more of the problems of shortages.
IT IS A SYSTEMIC FAILURE!!! THE ABOVE DOES CONCLUDE THAT WE HAVE AN INEFFICIENT & INEFFECTIVE NATIONAL STRATEGIC PLANNING AND INPLEMENTATION UNITS AND THAT THE VARIOUS MINISTRIES HAVE PROGRAMMES THAT ENSURE FAILURES WILL SUCCEED.
WE NEED A TOTAL OVERHAUL OF THE SYSTEM not just 'TINKERING' with a problem. OUR CURRENT SOLUTION TO A PROBLEM BREEDS MANY NEW AND MORE ACUTE PROBLEMS. DOES THE GOVERNMENT HAVE THE GUTS TO PURGE THE INCOMPETENTS AND REVAMP THE SYSTEM OR DO WE PRAY TO GOD TO SEEK THE SOLUTION?
"GOD HELP THOSE WHO HELP THEMSELVES!"
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