Health minister Dr Zaliha Mustafa says eligible candidates should submit their applications immediately after the vacancies are advertised. (Bernama pic)
PETALING JAYA : The health ministry is offering 4,914 permanent posts this year.
Its minister, Dr Zaliha Mustafa, said they consist of 4,263 positions for medical officers, 335 for dental officers, and 316 for pharmacists.
“The vacancies will be advertised from Jan 6 to 21,” she said in a statement today.
“I hope eligible candidates will fill out their applications and submit them immediately,”
Zaliha said the ministry is also looking into the need for health clinics to operate on “extended hours” to reduce non-critical patients at emergency departments.
She said the ministry is also set to expand online clinical consultation services, or virtual clinics, in another 100 health clinics.
“This will make a total of 370 clinics throughout the country providing this type of service,” she said.
Zaliha also said the administration of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine to Form 1 students will resume this year.
Last year, then health minister Khairy Jamaluddin said only 6% of Form 1 students were fully inoculated with the HPV vaccine in 2021 because of a global HPV vaccine shortage.
By comparison, 97% of Form 1 girls were fully inoculated with the HPV vaccine in 2020.
