Dear President of BMA,
I am not sure when you would be elected or whether you would ever be elected but may I highlight one of the issues that await you as you take on your new job. The issue is on medical manpower in the Ministry of Health. Could I ask for your advice/comments on the following (perhaps MOH might be able to help you):
1. Does MOH have a professional (and I highlight professional) Human Resource Department to manage existing and future manpower requirements?
2. Do we know how many of our local doctors training in the different countries are due to return to join the Ministry this year or the next and so on?
3. Do we know how many expatriate doctors have left the country over the last few years and for what reason?
4. Do we know how many local doctors have left or are thinking of leaving the service after the bond is up and for what reasons?
5. Do we know where are we in the global competition for “foreign talent”?
6. Do we know what are the current doctor requirements for each of the different directorates for Ministry of Health e.g. Medical, Public Health and Primary Health Care?
7. Do we know if we are matching those requirements and if not, do we have a strategy for matching it?
8. Do we know what the future medical manpower requirements are especially with the population expansion, aging population and increased expectations?
9. Do we know the current strategy for solving medical manpower shortages especially in the directorate of medical services is akin to stealing from Peter to pay Paul (i.e. moving doctors from one place to another, chasing to cover the shortages)
10. Do we know that if we leave the medical manpower issue as it is to whoever is running it, we will be hitting a giant iceberg sometime in the future.
I hope the questions above do not put you off your presidency and I wish you all the best in your job ahead.
Yours sincerely,
A comment from the post on postponement of the Brunei Medical Association. If similar questions was put to our directors, they may have a hard time trying to answer them. We do hope that the admin already know the answer to these questions and are planning appropriately.
Many thanks to the commenter. These questions do raise a lot of issues and we will be discussing this in future posts
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You talk about man power issues.
what most disgusts me those doctors sent to the UK to train and have not come back yet. i heard a rumor that MOH misplaced their records and hence can’t track them (isn’t that convenient given one of them is a child of a high ranking official at MOH)
They were privileged enough to go to the UK. Yet they have not returned to prvide service to the people of Brunei.
these selfish people should be hunted down and made to pay back their tuition fees and allowances (which would add uo to almost 1/2 million per doctor) or to come home and fulfill the promise they made
What happened to this blog? Where isn’t there any updates …i enjoyed reading the posts …
i hope that you guys will definitely answer directly my question
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