146 doctors quit in protest of P4P salary system

MONDAY, APRIL 01, 2013
146 doctors quit in protest of P4P salary system

The Public Health Ministry's newly medical salary system has prompted over 146 doctors nationwide to resign from rural and urban hospitals, affecting medical services for people in local areas.

 

Some of them went to work at the private hospital after learnt that the ministry's newly medical salary system will unfairly cut their additional allowance.
 
Of this number, about 11 doctors are specialists who provide medical cares for complicated condition, according to Dr Arak Wongworachart, a former president of Rural Doctor Society.
The Nation