70-hour workweek for junior MDs? How about 42.5, asks exco

Penang state health committee chairperson Norlela Ariffin has called on the Health Ministry to review the maximum 70-hour workweek of house officers, per the ministry’s guidelines.

She compared this to public hospitals in Australia, in which doctors are required to work 85 hours in two weeks or 42 and a half hours a week.

She added that junior doctors in Australia work from...