GMOA to decide next step on Sunday

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The Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA) Central Working Committee will meet on Sunday (25) to decide what action should be taken against the controversial private medical faculty in Malabe stating that the institution will not have a future in the country, the GMOA said today.

The GMOA Central Working Committee membership comprises 180 practising doctors who will decided on what their next step would be. GMOA Spokesman Dr. Upul Gunasekara said the five member committee appointed by the Health Ministry is expected to release a comprehensive report in two months time and that further action will be taken thereafter. In the meantime the private medical faculty has been advised to stop recruiting new students.

Meanwhile Minister of Higher Education S. B. Dissanayake has said that he would set up two similar private medical universities in Kandy and Battaramulla and another 21 private medical universities island wide. (Olindhi Jayasundere)

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