Contract doctors: PM statement only sugarcoating, strike is on

• UPDATED 4.10PM | Added Hartal Doktor Kontrak's guidelines for participants in the June 26 strike.

A nationwide protest by government contract doctors will go ahead as planned this Monday, said its organiser, despite Putrajaya making last-minute offers to appease them yesterday.

The group spearheading the Hartal Doktor Kontrak movement said the solutions offered by the government in Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin's statement yesterday, were only "half-cooked" and only intended to keep them quiet.

"Offering us another year of contract is not a solution; it’s a sugarcoated statement to shut us up. We know well how the system works, we are not...