Dr A Lingeshwaran has called for the establishment of an independent Health Service Commission (HSC) that is able to operate beyond the constraints of the civil service framework, amid concerns of medical personnel shortage.

Asserting that healthcare workers urgently require structural reforms as they are “fed up” with bureaucratic solutions, the former DAP senator highlighted that the HSC was a promised aspect of the Health White Paper (HWP), which Parliament passed in 2023.