Why are Malaysian doctors quitting, striking and preferring to work in Singapore?

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Why are Malaysian doctors quitting, striking and preferring to work in Singapore?
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Malaysian doctors have claimed to be overworked and under-appreciated for a long time. Here's why some choose to give up and leave to work in Singapore.

17 May 2023 at 2:51 pmA government medical contract doctor holds placard during a walkout strike at Kuala Lumpur Hospital in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on July 2021. After nine years as a government medical officer in Malaysia, in 2017, Dr Khoo Yoong Khean decided to take the leap to secure a job abroad; specifically, in Singapore.

"Back then, Singapore was willing to let me explore other areas of healthcare. So, I grabbed that opportunity," he said., a former dean of Universiti Malaya's medical faculty, for one, recently said that Malaysia has been losing its "best and brightest" medical minds for years. After that, there are a further two years of compulsory service in hospitals and clinics under the Health Ministry.

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