{
  "id": 13692812,
  "title": "KKM segerakan pengambilan, perkukuh usaha kekalkan jururawat",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/11/kkm-segerakan-pengambilan-perkukuh-usaha-kekalkan-jururawat-13692812",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-11T08:45:09.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Malaysia Today",
    "slug": "free-malaysia-today-freemalays",
    "url": "https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/bahasa/tempatan/2026/10/11/kkm-segerakan-pengambilan-perkukuh-usaha-kekalkan-jururawat"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Health Minister Dzulkefly Ahmad emphasized the importance of ensuring the public healthcare service remains competitive and honoring its staff, speaking to reporters after launching the National Heart Health 2026-2030 initiative at the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia's Tun Muhriz Hospital. The KKM is actively recruiting new healthcare workers and strengthening efforts to retain existing ones by improving facilities and career prospects. Key measures include salary increases through the Public Service Salary Scheme (SSPA), incentives, and allowances, such as a raise in the Basic Pos Help Allowance from RM100 to RM200 monthly. The Health Minister also highlighted the importance of maintaining a 42-hour weekly work schedule for night-shift workers, expanding training opportunities, and career promotions, as well as offering flexibility in job placement via a voluntary matching system. Healthcare workers are among the most significant beneficiaries of the relevant matching scheme, and the recruitment process has been expedited to fill vacant positions. Dzulkefly emphasized that the KKM no longer takes on contract healthcare workers, with all new recruitment offered as permanent positions. Additionally, the Health Ministry is working to speed up the conversion of contract pharmacists to permanent roles in collaboration with the Finance Ministry. As of July, 3,545 contract pharmacists were still employed by the KKM, while 115 more were on standby or awaiting permanent appointment. Dzulkefly hopes this process can be expedited to allow pharmacists to transition to permanent services.",
  "summary": "Antara langkah dilaksanakan termasuk penambahbaikan gaji, pemberian insentif dan elaun ikut kelayakan, kata menteri kesihatan.",
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        "outlet": "Free Malaysia Today",
        "title": "KKM segerakan pengambilan, perkukuh usaha kekalkan jururawat",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/11/kkm-segerakan-pengambilan-perkukuh-usaha-kekalkan-jururawat",
        "published": "2026-10-11T08:45:09.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}