Doctors strike tomorrow; Against Pvt. Medical College
Doctors will stage a countrywide strike tomorrow (07) in protest against the gazette notification issued by Higher Education Minister S. B. Dissanayake recognising Malabe Private Medical College as a degree awarding institute.
Assistant Secretary of the Government Medical Officers’ Association Dr. Sankalpa Marasinghe said yesterday that the Minister has legalised the Malabe PMC by issuing the Extraordinary Gazette Notification 1721-19 of Aug. 30, 2011.
He said It has been recognised as an institution which awards MBBS degrees similar to those issued by government medical faculties. The government has also provided six hundred million rupees to the Malabe PMC to build a teaching hospital.
He said that this was proof that it did not have a teaching hospital of its own, which is one of the GMOA’s bones of contention.
Minister Dissanayake had also violated section 70 of the University Act. The Minister has to appoint a special panel to assess whether a private medical institution was suitable to be awarded such a status. However information has it that three of the members of a seven-member panel had expressed their disapproval and made their recommendations against such a step, Dr. Marasinghe said.
He said that Castle Street Hospital for Women, De Soyza Maternity Home, Lady Ridgeway Children’s Hospital and the Maharagama Cancer Institute would be exempted from the strike. They will also attend to all emergencies. However routine work would be disrupted.
Source: The Island
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So what about the ‘PRIVATE CLINICS’ conduct by doctors in greed of money, after learning with same peoples money…?
what idiot u amden,are the doctors only learn from peopl’s money, what others are thy from their own money including u.
see on open mind brother,
Doctors’ strike should be made illegal as in other countries, including the developed countries in the West. As in other countries, all emergency services such as medical, ambulance, fire and police should be probitted by law to hold strikes as it endangers peoples lives.
These doctors are greedy for money. They shirk their official duties in State Hospitals to earn large sums of money in Private Clinics, so that they tripple their earnings. These doctors should be found out and penalised by the justice system. Surely, they should be providing a dedicated service to the nation, who gave them free education from primary level to university! Now they come out on strike endangering the lives of patients! They have broken the Hypocratic Oath they took when they qualified as doctors.
We need more Private Universities in SL, as in developed countries, in order to provide more university places for intelligent students who have gained high marks to qualify for university places. Rich parents can then send their children to these Private Universities in SL rather than send them abroad at very high costs. This would free-up more place in State Universities, for bright students who can ill-afford university education abroad. Hence, I support Hon Minister S B Disanayake’s foresight to invite private enterprise to open such Private Universities in SL for all professional disciplines. This is road to fast track development post 30 years of stagnation due to LTTE terrorism. Let the people voice loud and clearly against this strike by the greedy doctors!
Hi IDIOT Chali brother…!
U’ve got a nice idiot argumant here too, that is; ‘not only doctors learned by peoples money’.
It may be a modern doctors intelligent saying..!
Do those Fools like you know the fukin respect & responsibility of a ‘doctor’…?
Do they know this profession is connected with the humanity..?
There was a modern doctor who raped a pregnent woman in public hospital.. That’s the humanity of him…!
Do all other professionals also forsake their main public duties deliberately like this in greedy of money by harming people…?
What if govt solders had stricked when terrorist attack is in take place..?
Why only some doctors careless in work at govt hospital & so hurry to go to private clinic..?
Forget, that learning with peoples money… Can’t even follow their own duty honestly for the salary they get from public money..?
This won’t point to the profession of doctors but many of who do this profession are abusing the same..!
Dear Doctors,
I really don’t understand the reasons behind your protest. You were lucky enough to get tertiary education totally free of charge (which is funded by the public taxes, which includes our parents money). Some children in National schools weren’t so lucky to get into an university; not that they didn’t try hard, but simply because their ´maximum´ wasn’t good enough. There are still others (like me) who studied at an International School, got excellent results for A-levels, but still doesn’t have the liberty in my own country to do the degree I want to do. I read the publication of the GMOA on this institute and can affirm that some parts of it are FALSE. For e.g. it says that this degree is not recognized by the GMC. I phoned GMC and they said they do recognize this institution. From friends inside the SAITM, I know that they are indeed going on clinical practice to 1 particular government hospital and private hospitals. Still if you aren’t satisfied with the standard, I say simply “they still have to get through the ERMP”. So you can rule out the ´cowboy´ doctors from this exam by making the exam on par with Sri Lankan standards, can’t you? We have NO objection to this! But if your arguments is that the profession will be flooded with middle-class and rich children (which is stated in the GMOA publication), then two things:
1) the so-called rich and middle class children are simply going to go abroad to study medicine. Actually going to Bangladesh will be MUCH cheaper. So here is a way where thousands and thousands of dollars are sent abroad, when this can be easily solved by the establishment of PMCs.
2) You are living in a democratic country aren’t you? You have the right to play a part on which people are sent to office. They reflect your opinion, otherwise you can just stop voting for them. So when a democratic government (whom the people of the country sent into office) makes a decision, you need to respect it, shouldn’t you? UNLESS of course, you are against democracy? THATS THE MAJORITY RULE!! If the people of the country are dissatisfied with this government decision, the people will sent them out! If they like it, they will keep the government. That democracy.
I sincerely apologize for any hurt feelings, I didn’t mean to offend anyone. Thank you for reading this.
Very good lesson by “Chap” to “Chali” & is there a “Lin” also to make a Chali-chap-lin here…?
By Only a professional education can’t make good professionals. SL education is lacking of good conducts.
That’s why JVP evils also has an evil force in campus & students behave as animals too. Campus discipline is NIL. This’s an ill education system. It makes educated “machines” not humans.
They go after Lenin & Stalin when In the campus dreams & later go after money being doctors, lawyers deliberately hurting the poor people who shared tax to gave their education to become doctors, lawyers. So what a deference between them & business men.?
These DUAL doctors need to stop privatization in education & same time need to keep clinic privatization for their business. They’re suffering from ill conduct.
This protest is an expression of malicious jealousy feelings of some JVP led evils.