Doctors in Malaysia's public healthcare system doing active on-calls (in departments such as medicine, surgery, obstetrics & gynaecology, orthopaedics, paediatrics and anaesthesiology) work an average of between 60 to 84 hours per week depending on manpower resources.
The Malaysian Medical Association (MMA) has called on the Health Ministry to explain the shortage of housemen at a teaching hospital here, following a recent report.
