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Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Medical school’s recognition: Stop moving goalposts

Health Minister Dr S Subramaniam is told to come clean on the status Crimea State Medical University's recognition by the MMC.
PETALING JAYA: “Blindfolding a person and leaving him in the woods to look for something” is a Tamil proverb that best describes the recent comments made by the Health Ministry in regards to the status of the Crimea State Medical University (CSMU).
In the latest twist of events, the ministry has now recommended that CSMU relook into areas of concern that have been highlighted by the Malaysian Medical Council (MMC).
On Friday, Health Minister Dr S Subramaniam said that a review of the programme done by the MMC last year found inadequacies and shortcomings which have not been addressed to-date.
He further pledged to review the status once the concerned areas are sorted out by the university.
“But, the question now is, how is the university to address the so called weaknesses when they do not know what are the requirements and faults identified by MMC?” asked a PKR leader today.
“It is already eight years. Apart from MMC, no one knows, including Subramaniam himself, the reasons behind the university’s de-recognition,” said G Rajendran, Malacca PKR vice chairman.
He further lamented that MMC had indeed worsened the entire scenario when they refused to report their findings to Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak despite him asking to do so since March 19, 2013.
CSMU, a Ukrainian medical university, was de-recognized in 2005 by the Health Ministry for reasons that were never made public.
The then MIC president S Samy Vellu went on to accuse MMC of being racially motivated since majority of students enrolled from Malaysia in CSMU were Indians.
Due to public pressure with the support of some NGOs, MMC decided to revisit the university in October 2012.
Shockingly, after five months of their audit, MMC announced that CSMU has been withdrawn from the Second Schedule of the Medical Act 1971, thus rendering the university as unrecognized.
“CSMU is a prominent university in Europe. More than 60 medical councils and boards have recognized it. Hence it is a mystery as to what are the core issues being harped on by the ministry and MMC?” asked Rajendran.
“The report is not a confidential document; therefore, here I am challenging Subramaniam to reveal the contents of the report, make it public” said Rajendran.
Meanwhile, in an e-mail to FMT, Dr SA Kutya, the CSMU Vice Chancellor of International Affairs warmly welcomed the Health Minister’s proposal that the “recognition criteria” needs to be met in order for the university to be recognized in Malaysia.
He requested Subramaniam to spell out the criteria that must be fulfilled in order for CSMU to regain its recognition by MMC and the Health Ministry.
He has also yet to receive any report by the MMC panel in relation to their findings on CSMU despite writing to the MMC on numerous occasions. The last official request was made on April this year.

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