The
Public Health Department needs more than 58,000 staff but only 40 per cent of
that number has been employed, Minister for Health and Sports Dr Myint Htwe has
told the Lower House.
MP Dr A
Zin Latt proposed a reorganisation of the department to extend and improve
public health care.
"The
department is allowed to appoint 58,554 people, but we have been able to
appoint only 40 per cent. We are now trying to recruit more staff," said
Myint Htwe.
Too
little expertise in the ministry and too few practitioners on the ground were
holding health care back, he said.
The
minister unveiled a plan to reconstitute the department, including the
appointment of about 2,000 doctors next year.
"We
are planning to reconstitute the department to promote public health-care
services such as vaccinations, school health, educational talks, effective
health-care services and the elimination of infectious and chronic
diseases," said the minister.
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