KUALA LUMPUR, May 28 -- Four senior medical professionals are reportedly in the running for the post of Health director-general.

According to a report in Free Malaysia Today (FMT), the post has been vacant since the retirement of Datuk Dr Radzi Abu Hassan earlier this month, after he reached the mandatory retirement age of 60.

FMT reported that sources identified the list of candidates as including Deputy Health Director-General (Research and Technical Support) Datuk Dr Nor Fariza Ngah and Deputy Health Director (Medicine) Datuk Dr Nor Azimi Yunus.

Also reportedly in consideration are the Health Ministry's Head of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Datuk Dr Basheer Ahamed Abdul Kareem, and Kuala Lumpur Hospital Director, Dr R Harikrishna Nair.

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