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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1989
STRUGGLE.
"WHAT SORT OF PERFORMANCE COULD ONE EXPECT FROM THE DOCTOR
CONTINUOUS IS COMPLETELY EXHAUSTED AFTER 36 HOURS OF KIND OF CARE AND DEVOTION CAN ONE EXPECT OF HIM?" HE ASKED.
WHO WHAT
BONE OF
DR CONTENTION,
LEONG SAID. REPEATED REQUESTS FOR A SEPARATE
THEIR
IN COUNTERPARTS
THE LEGAL
THE
PAY
AND
SALARY WAS ALSO A DOCTORS AND NURSES HAD MADE
YET DENIED. SCALE BUT WERE SECURITY DEPARTMENTS WERE GIVEN SUCH FLEXIBILITY.
SINCERELY AN
PROFESSIONAL
HE URGED THE GOVERNMENT TO CONSIDER PAY SCALE AND ACROSS-THE-BOARD
INDEPENDENT
ALLOWANCES FOR DOCTORS
AND NURSES.
POSITIVE
THE FROM ACTION CONFIDENCE THAT THE HIDE
DR LEONG ASKED FOR IMMEDIATE ADMINISTRATION, AND SAID THAT WHATEVER SHRED OF STAFF HAD IN THE ADMINISTRATION WOULD BE LOST IF IT CONTINUED TO BEHIND THE NOT YET MATERIALISED HOSPITAL AUTHORITY.
DR LEONG ALSO REFERRED TO A GOVERNMENT DOCTORS.
LACK
OF JOB
SATISFACTION
AMONG
SUCH "REPEATED REQUESTS FOR IMPROVEMENT OF WORKING ENVIRONMENT
CLERICAL HELP AS OFFICE SPACE, BETTER CALL ROOMS AND AVAILABILITY OF HAVE FALLEN ON DEAF EARS, HE SAID.
THAT THINGS WILL OF MANAGEMENT
FEEL "ALL IS STILL NOT LOST IF THE DOCTORS AND CAN IMPROVE IN THE FUTURE. UNFORTUNATELY, THE LACK EXPERTISE IN HOSPITALS MAKES IMPROVEMENT A MOCKERY.
FOR
"
MEDICAL OFFICERS TO
DR LEONG SAID THE LACK OF A CHANNEL AIR THEIR GRIEVANCES WAS ANOTHER FACTOR CONTRIBUTING TO FRUSTRATION.
HE BELIEVED THAT GRADED INDUSTRIAL ACTION WAS OF THEIR EXPRESSION OF DISGUST.
ONLY ONE FACET
L
"PERHAPS MORE IMPORTANT IS THE STREAM OF WASTAGE OF STAFF THE PRIVATE SECTOR, HE SAID.
INTO
A
CENT
HE SAID THAT IN THE CASE OF DOCTORS, THE WASTAGE HAD REACHED CRITICAL RATE OF 10 PER CENT FOR GOVERNMENT HOSPITALS AND 23 PER
AND MOST OF THE FOR SUBVENTED HOSPITALS,
LOSSES OCCURRED AT THE
SENIOR LEVEL.
CURB
THIS
CARE
"URGENT MOVES MUST BE MADE BY THE ADMINISTRATION TO WASTAGE WHICH, GIVEN TIME, WILL UNDERMINE THE QUALITY OF MEDICAL FOR OUR COMMUNITY," HE CONCLUDED.
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