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Generally, there were 34,241 registered doctors with MoH comprised of 4,970 Medical Specialists,
24,656 Medical Officers and 4,545 House Officers. The total numbers of personnel for five (5) main
service schemes in MoH are as tabulated in Table 2.

Table 2
Total Personnel for 5 Main Service Schemes in Ministry Of Health (2017)
No Service Scheme Total
1. Doctors 34,241
2. Dentists 3,867
3. Pharmacists 7,759
4. Nurses 65,709
5. Assistant Medical Officers 13,904

Source: Human Resource Division, MoH

ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT AND ESTABLISHMENT
From 2016 to 2017, various efforts had been taken to ensure sufficient human resource in healthcare
sector. The growing needs for human resource is anticipated by the increasing number of patients in
healthcare facilities, disease burden and expansion of service scope in healthcare facilities as well as
development of new and upgraded healthcare facilities nationwide.

The Lean Civil Service Policy which was introduced in 22 April 2015 suggested a reformed organizational
structure and establishments to be implemented as one of the initiatives to capitalize services and
deliverable under stretched resources. Hence, establishment of posts to meet current needs were
conducted using redeployment and trade off approaches.

Therefore, in 2017, a total of 4,346 vacant posts had been traded off as to create the equal number of
new establishments.

MANAGEMENT OF PROMOTION
Promotion is an essential aspect of Human Resource Management in producing outstanding and
highly motivated officers. It is a medium of recognition for employees’ contributions and provides
better career pathway and benefits. Details of employee’s promotions in MoH for 2017 are as follows
(Table 3):

Table 3
Number of Promoted Officers (2017)

Paramedic And
Superscale Grade/ Management & Auxiliary & Total
Special Grade Professional Group
Executing Group
Promotion 87 14,679 7,682 22,448

Source: Human Resource Division, MoH

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