YANGON: Hundreds of mourners turned out Wednesday (June 5) to pay their respects to a former Myanmar general turned democracy activist and confidant of Aung San Suu Kyi, in a rare sanctioned public gathering in the junta-controlled commercial capital.
PETALING JAYA: While welcoming the government’s will to resolve the parallel pathway issue, groups say urgent amendments were needed to the Medical Act when Parliament sits later this month.
“We hope amendments include recognising all training pathways and qualifications previously recognised by the Health Ministry and recognising Ministry hospitals as training institutions to continue parallel pathway programmes successfully,” he said.He similarly highlighted the need for a process within the Malaysian Medical Council to evaluate the training and qualifications of specialists whose qualifications have yet to be recognised by the MMC.
“There should also be a right of appeal of decisions made by the MMC to the Health Minister,” he said. Malaysian Medical Association president Dr Azizan Abdul Aziz meanwhile called for greater urgency on the matter. In The Star’s front page exclusive on June 1, it was reported that the Health Ministry may be given more clout in conducting and recognising specialist training programmes to deal with the parallel pathway conflict.The source added that there is a possibility that the Health Minister would be given “clearer powers” to veto MMC’s decisions if there is any conflict, and to enable certain checks and balances on the council.
Parallel Pathway Issue Dr John Chan Kok Meng Medical Act Cardiothoracic Surgeons MMC
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