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| Friday, 24 September 2004 |
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by Wasantha Ramanayake The Supreme Court yesterday dismissed two appeals filed by the Sri Lanka Medical Council seeking to set aside the Court of Appeal judgment directing the Council to recognise the MD Medical Degree awarded to Registered and Assistant Medical Officers by St. Petersburg State Medical Academy of Russia. The Bench comprised Chief Justice Sarath N. Silva, PC and Justices C.V. Wigneswaran and Nihal Jayasinghe. Respondent-petitioners Sri Lanka Medical Council (SLMC) and its registrar Prof. P.S.S. Panditharathna cited the Government Registered Medical Officers' Association (GRMOA), its Secretary Dr. S.M. Sooriyabandara, five members of the GRMOA including Dr. W.M.M. Fernando as petitioners-respondents. SLMC filed the instant appeal in the Supreme Court being aggrieved by the Court of Appeal Judgment that quashed SLMC decision not to register certain Registered Medical Officers as Medical Practitioners on the basis that the degree awarded to them by the St. Petersburg State Medical Academy of Russia was unacceptable since it was not the approved course of study by the SLMC. SLMC stated that the petitioners-respondents had completed the course in less than three years. It further claimed that SLMC had only approved the six-year degree course awarded by the Russian University but they could not recognize the impugned course of study which was only three years; two and half years in Sri Lanka and the rest six months in the USSR. Petitioners-respondents filed the Writ application in the Court of Appeal challenging the decision of the SLMC. They stated that Health Ministry made the arrangements with the Russian University to follow the courses since it was desirable for the RMOs and AMOs to obtain post graduate qualifications. They stated that they enrolled for the course as Medical Practitioners having experience in excess of seven years but not as the students who had just finished their secondary education. |
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