Too many nurses chasing too few jobs


There have been as well most nurses being lerned as well as as well few jobs for them, as well as PSM says a fault lies with a government's poor formulation for nurse intake for in isolation institutions.
PETALING JAYA: Is a supervision simply amateurish when it comes to a glut of nurses or have been a Health Ministry as well as Higher Education Ministry officers upon a take?
Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) feels which there is some-more than meets a eye as well as it is questionable which in isolation colleges have been greasing a palms of these officers.
Yearly, in isolation colleges have been producing about 12,000 entirely lerned nurses though there have been usually 1,000 to 1,500 nursing jobs in a in isolation zone each year, according to PSM central cabinet member as well as Sungai Siput MP Dr D Michael Jeyakumar.
Jeyakumar pronounced total given to him in Parliament showed which in 2010, some 5,000 out of 7,500 nursing graduates could not find jobs as nurses as well as ended up working at alternative sectors or were jobless.
There have been currently some-more than 37,500 nursing undergraduates enrolled in 61 in isolation institutes training nursing. Other nurses have been lerned in open institutions.
Jeyakumar pronounced PSM has, over a past couple of years, received dozens of complaints from connoisseur nurses as well as their parents, higlighting this issue.
"Many of these girls c! an't get jobs as nurses so they work as salesgirls, clerks, as well as receptionists, which may compensate maybe RM800 when a staff nurse is supposed to get RM1,800 a month," he said.
He pronounced with such difficulty finding a nursing job, most have been incompetent to repay their PTPTN (National Higher Education Fund Corporation) loans, as well as he asked a supervision to waive those loans.
"You have to forfeit a loan; if they can't means a job, how can you ask them to pay?"
Jeyakumar pinned a censure upon a problems upon a supervision officials from both a Health as well as Higher Education Ministries.
"The government's law of in isolation colleges giving nursing courses is very, really disappointing. The Higher Education Ministry as well as a Health Ministry have been both involved. They have been not doing their jobs properly as well as now you have a gross oversupply of nurses, some feeble lerned who have been incompetent to find jobs.
Big scandal, vast weakness
He pronounced a Health Ministry was a a single which allowed in isolation colleges vast quotas for their nurse intakes. The Higher Education Ministry, upon a alternative hand, was a a single which regulates a institutions as well as gives out licences.
"It is a vast liaison as well as vast weakness in a system. We have been observant a whole thing is a mess. We wish a supervision to discuss it us either it is insufficiency or is it because a in isolation colleges have been giving monetary inducement to officers in a Health Ministry? I wish them to check as there have been usually either of these two possibilities," pronounced Jeyakumar.
Jeyakumar pronounced which! sources within a nursing colleges indicate which a distinction domain for nursing courses was about 50%.
"So for a standard three-year diploma course costing RM55,000, a in isolation college can get some-more than RM25,000. This goes in to a hundreds of millions in profits, there is outrageous money there (RM25,000 x 12,000= RM 300 million)," he said.
Jeyakumar pronounced a complaint was a diseased make up which is shabby strongly by monetary inducements.
He combined which in a whole intrigue of things, usually a owners as well as shareholders of a colleges profit.
"Obviously distinction seems to be a main objective here. We wish a public, a relatives of those after SPM, to know. We don't wish an additional 10,000 cheated again in future years," he said.
The supervision now should cut down as well as freeze a intake in to a in isolation sector, pronounced Jeyakumar, who also called upon a supervision to review a quotas as well as licensing.
In April 2010, The Star quoted Higher Education Minister Mohamed Khaled Nordin as observant which a supervision was interlude some-more colleges from having nursing courses to forestall an oversupply of nurses as well as alternative problems outset from connoisseur unemployment.
"There will be no some-more in isolation institutions on condition that nursing courses as you have been already upon a right lane to achieve a recommended World Health Organisation nurse to population comparative measure of 1:200," he was quoted as saying.
On December 13 last year, PSM handed over a chit to a Higher Education Minister upon a issue, though claimed which there has been no active feedback so far.
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