THE health-care sector is going on a year-end recruitment drive to fill 1,500 positions at two new hospitals by March next year.

Wanted: Doctors, nurses, occupational therapists and other health professionals.

Some 600 of the jobs are available at the 550-bed Khoo Teck Puat Hospital which opens in Yishun next March.

The core team for the new hospital will come from Alexandra Hospital (AH).

Ms Fatimah Moideen Kutty, AH's deputy director of human resource, said part of its recruitment strategy has been to target residents in the north.

In the last two years, it managed to hire about 300 people in Yishun. The other 900 jobs will be at the Jurong General Hospital (JGH), which will be ready by 2014. The staff need to be hired by March to take over at Alexandra Hospital, which will be the temporary premises for JGH.

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