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Malaysia’s striking doctors defiant after police probe, vow further action ‘if promises are not kept’
- The contract doctors who staged a wildcat walkout in protest over unfair treatment will cooperate with the investigation, a spokesman says
- The organisers estimated that up to 8,000 medical professionals took part in the industrial action, returning to their work stations afterwards
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Malaysian contract doctors who staged a wildcat walkout on Monday in protest over unfair treatment are satisfied with the wide public attention their industrial action has received and will cooperate with police investigations, according to a spokesman.
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Organisers of the Hartal Doktor Kontrak – or “contract doctors’ strike” – estimated that some 6,000 to 8,000 of the 23,077 contract doctors in the national health care system took part in the walkout at 11am.
This Week in Asia could not independently verify the figure, but pictures on social media showed hundreds of black-clad medics holding placards and posters outside their places of employment just before noon.
Most of the images posted online were taken outside hospitals in the country’s commercial capital Kuala Lumpur, the administrative capital Putrajaya and the surrounding state of Selangor.
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Local media reported that many of those who took part in the walkout subsequently returned to their places of employment.
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