Fair Deployment of House Officers Urged

THIRTY years ago doctors (house officers) in the Kuala Lumpur General

Hospital had to go on call on alternate days due to an acute shortage of

doctors.

But even today house officers go on call on alternate days in HKL,

though in smaller hospitals they need to go on call one day a week only.

This shows that the house officers are not fairly distributed according

to patient strength in each hospital. This results in work overload for

house officers in some hospitals and insufficient exposure for house

officers in other hospitals.

To ensure that house officers get good training, the authorities should

be strict about the number of such officers posted in each hospital.

K.T.

Mentakab