Private clinics will struggle with new minimum wage, says MMA


Alfian Z.M. Tahir

Private clinics are not like other sectors where price increases can be passed on to the consumers, says Malaysian Medical Association president Dr Koh Kar Chai. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, April 14, 2022.

SMALL private clinics will struggle to keep up when the RM1,500 minimum wage is enforced next month, the Malaysian Medical Association (MMA) said.

Its president Dr Koh Kar Chai said general practitioners’ clinics are essentially low-income businesses with no avenue to increase their charges to compensate for the increase in operating expenditure caused by the imposition of minimum wages.


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