It found the public health sector will have a severe shortage of nurses and pharmacists, but an oversupply of doctors. According to Thinakorn Noree, a senior researcher at the Ministry of Public Health involved in the research, Thailand will have excessive supply of public health graduates. Currently, 10,000 students graduate in public health annually with 90 universities offering medical health education programmes nationwide. "I think we are producing too many public health graduates. The country has 50,000 doctors and can produce 3,200 new doctors a year.

Source: Bangkok Post November 09, 2017 04:07 UTC