The Specialist

Read in the papers that our government is trying to woo Malaysian specialists serving in Britain back to Malaysia. They will be rewarded with an "instant" pay rise of about RM 4,000 if they were to return. Besides this monetary reward, there were also other incentives like allowing locum in government hospitals and even 'simplified' Bahasa Malaysia exam for service comfirmation among other things. Sounds like a good offer for people already staying here. I wonder if there will be any takers!

My question is, what about those who have been serving faithfully here? What perks do they get? If these guys who have been enjoying themselves with high pay over there now come back and still get better deals than those who never went overseas but stayed home to serve the Malaysian people, what kind of treatment is this? If I were a local specialist I would feel very downhearted. The government must come up with something to appreciate the local specialists also, otherwise we will lose them to the private sector.

With so many rich people(and also the not so rich) getting sick and what with the trend of the rich to be treated by speacialist for almost everything, I would not be surprised if most of them went over to the private Medical Centers! The government hospitals would be left with the head of departments and their senior assistants who assist in looking for files or something like that because the specialist worker ants would be busy making money on the other side... heh heh.

We need to look after the 'baby in the house before we worry about the monkeys in the forest' la.