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?????????????????????????????????????????????????Tuesday, May 9, 2017
Medical Students Seek Intervention In The SAITM Special Leave To Appeal Case
May 8, 2017
Several medical students have filed an application to intervene in the
Special Leave to Appeal matter filed by the Sri Lanka Medical Council
stating that the the Judgement of the Court of Appeal affects them as
well as the general public. The Application has been made under Article
134(3) of the Constitution.
In the said Petition, the medical students allege that SAITM has
conducted itself in a contrived manner to obtain the necessary
approvals from the Government and in fact mislead the Government on
several occasions.
The Petitioners have alleged that at the time SAITM was set up, it has
indicated that it would function as an offshore campus of Nizhny
Novgorod State Medical Academy (NNSMA) and advertised as such, although
the Russian Government as well as the Sri Lankan Embassy in Russia has
confirmed that there was no such offshore campus registered with the
Russian Authorities. In fact, although SAITM has claimed that the
NNSMA’s Sri Lanka Campus has approval of SLMC, while only the NNSMA,
Russia had such approval.
The Petitioners have further alleged that the present Minister of Higher
Education and Minister of Health as well as their predecessors have
acted in a manner that has been beneficial to SAITM and the conduct of
the present Minister of Health is bias since his daughter-in-law is a
current student at SAITM.
The Petitioners allege that Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva had
rescinded the Minimum Education Standards for Medicine in 2010 without
replacing them and several successive Ministers including the present
Minister has failed to issue the new regulations to date. This has
resulted with the SLMC which registers Medical Practitioners in Sri
Lanka, unable to assess whether SAITM complies with any educational
standard.
Further, it is alleged that then Minister of Higher Education S.B.
Dissanayake has amended the Regulations relating to recognition of
Degree Awarding Institutes to bypass the SLMC’s approval.
In view of the documents marked to the Petition, the Petitioners have
stated that it clearly demonstrate that, the collusive and complicit
actions and inactions of the Minister of Higher Education, Secretary to
the Ministry of Higher Education, University Grants Commission, and the
Minister of Health has resulted with SAITM being given legal recognition
albeit in a deceitful, illogical and arbitrary manner resulting with
grave prejudice being caused to the general public.
The Petitioners have also stated that the Minister of Higher Education,
Secretary to the Ministry of Higher Education, University Grants
Commission, and the Minister of Health have not acted and/or failed to
act in a judicious manner, and has acted in a manner that has given
preferential treatment to the SAITM, and gone out of its ordinary sphere
of activity to grant legitimacy to a process which is demonstrably
tainted with illegality and unreasonable and/or wrongful actions.