I asked a senior-ish KKM doctor :
"just curious. Re: endless manpower-shortage news at KKM. If rakyat were to mobilise, voluntarily, how could they help ( now, and given a bit of new planning )?
- zero : no protocol to absorb volunteers
- orderly / manual chores only
- semi-skilled labour : few hours of training, field medicine level
- skilled support : logistics / management etc.
Medicine is a type of engineering. In emergencies, it is all hands on deck. Is KKM militarised to do this? Or too complacent to allow it?"
Just checking on common sense approaches. The economics of emergency volunteerism is that ... it absorbs work from the bottom of the skill-pyramid, pushing skilled man-hours up to the top. Even if it 5 hours of extra input from a low-skilled volunteer frees up other people enough to allow everyone to specialise so that at the top of the chain a surgeon has 10 minutes of new time, it's a win. KKM clearly has no economic sense - but can they acquire it lol
I would pay particular attention to that "field medicine" concept. In some economic situations, a bit of training goes a long way. And over the course of a few weeks, months, and years at war : that stacks ...
we also have thousands of pharmacy degree holders spending their lives upselling vitamins - surely the KKM can create a more field-oriented corp from these, that frees up the most junior doctors some what ... having doctors work as supervisors rather than first-line of defense
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