Doctors who abuse the full payment patient scheme (FPPS) will barred from using this privilege, said Health Minister Dr S Subramaniam.

Subramaniam said while the system was introduced to allow doctors to earn extra income while serving public hospitals, mechanisms will be put in place to make sure their goal is still to serve the larger public.

"The system doesn't allow them to make hundreds of thousands of ringgit," he said while wrapping up the Health Ministry's part of the Budget 2017 committee stage debate.