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Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Plight of Pharmacies

The story about the plight of a group of pharmacy graduate caught the attention of many Malaysia. One of them is Sara. She worked hard for 6 long years, putting all her attention to getting good result and eyeing to serve community when she graduate.


In Malaysia, all Malaysian graduates of doctors, dentists and pharmacy are required to serve the government in order to get the license. For pharmacists, they have only to serve 1 year, it use to 3 years earlier.

It is believed that the difficulty to get the government job is caused by the system within the government itself. Some suggest that the delay is caused by the new pay scheme, which is yet to be finalized. However this was denied by the Director general, where he mentioned that the delay in its placement has nothing to do with new salary scheme.

Another graduate, John was in worst fate. He had a chance to work for a private organisation, however, when he heard that the hospital placement was coming soon.

In Malaysia, the ratio of pharmacist to population is 1:3,200, which is well below the the figure recommended by WHO. WHO is quoting the ratio of 1 pharmacist for every 2000 population.

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