Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah has expressed hope that contract doctors, through amendments to the Pension Act, will be absorbed into permanent positions within two years.

He said the amendments, to be overseen by a special task force led by the Malaysian Medical Association (MMA) and Ministry of Health (MOH) will enable all 23,000 doctors who will be offered a two-year extension to their current contract of service, to be offered permanent employment under the EPF scheme...