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Healthcare Professionals’ Wellbeing   
1. Is the Job Market Really Saturated?  
Mustapha Kamal1  
  
Surplus of doctors or highly unemployed doctors? Malaysia faces the challenge of answering, balancing 
between the two. As per reported in 2019, we have 23077 contract doctors in ‘Kementerian Kesihatan 
Malaysia’ (KKM) and just recently, only roughly about 4000 have been absorbed into permanent posts. 
Since then, private practice has blossomed with more private clinics opening like mushrooms. Diabetes, 
hyperlipidaemia and hypertension are on the rise. Ischemic heart disease remains as the number one 
pathological contributor to death. Mental health is currently crippling into our youth and our working 
class. Since the start of the contract system, KKM has been unable to deliver specialists as they used to, 
due to the change of system. Malaysia’s population is estimated to be at 32.7million according to the 
Department of Statistics Malaysia. With a whopping total of almost 50000 doctors in KKM as per 2019 
statistics, can they face the tide? Are we overproducing doctors or underdeveloping new doctors?  
  
Keywords: Contract doctors; doctors Malaysia; doctors’ training; doctors’ wellbeing  
 

1. Megaklinik Zahran, Bandar Baru Bangi, Selangor.    
  

 

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Correspondence to: Dr. Mustapha Kamal, Megaklinik Zahran, Bandar Baru Bangi, 
Selangor.  dr.mustaphakamal93@gmail.com 

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.31344/ijhhs.v7i70.515