The Number of Paediatricians in Malaysia
According to Professor Lee Way Seah, President of the College of Paediatrics, Academy of Medicine of Malaysia, as of October 31, 2008, there are 217 paediatricians in Malaysia.
Of these 217, only 35 are in the public sector. The rest are in private practice.
The population of Malaysia is 25,274,132 (July 2008 est.) according to https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/print/my.html
This makes the paediatrician: population ratio as 1:116,470.65
This makes the paediatrician: population ratio as 1:116,470.65
That is a scary ratio!
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Labels: Malaysia, Medical Students, Medicine
posted by Alex Tang at 6:44 PM
2 Comments:
Paediatricians only take care of children, hence the ratio should be for children aged less than 18 years and not the entire Malaysian population.
Agreed. Please do proper statistics and not to scare people
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