KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 10 -- A total 4,500 contract doctors will be offered permanent posts under Budget 2026.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said a total 1,500 permanent positions have been approved between 2023 and 2025 to absorb contract doctors into permanent posts.

"Including annual intakes, a total of 12,900 contract doctors have been absorbed into permanent positions," he said when tabling the Budget 2026 today.

He said contract nurses were also being offered permanent positions where a total 833 contract nurses have been offered permanent posts this year while 935 graduates from the Health Ministry's Training Institutes will be offered permanent posts next year.

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