Is Malaysia bleeding nurses to foreign countries?
In recent years, Malaysia has seen an exodus of its nurses to foreign lands - with neighbouring Singapore emerging as a favourite destination.
According to Health Ministry statistics, the number of vacancies for nurses in the nation’s public health sector has shot up to 40 percent in just the last four years, since the Covid-19 pandemic.
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