Re-emergence of a private medical college (PMC) threat in Sri Lanka

[MFSAC]

Dear sir / madam,

Re-emergence of a private medical college (PMC) threat in Sri Lanka.
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A private medical college has been started as a BOI project at Malambe which is approved by university grant commission with reluctance under influence of powerful figures in the government.

The south Asian institute of technology and management has negotiate with a medical faculty in Russia Nizni Novgorod state academy of medicine and plan to sell medical degree at 8 million rupees.

Let us see how this private medical college jeopardizes the free education and free health service. To the ordinary people of this country, only system available to become a doctor is through free education (as it should be). If some are getting a medical degree using their power and wealth rather than educational qualifications, what will happen to the wishes of ordinary brilliant students and free education? How can we justify treating those two groups of students in two different ways? The solution should be providing more funds and creating more vacancies in the universities. Here we emphasize the main areas which will be affected by this problem.



01.Undermining of the quality of medical degree of Sri Lanka.

It is a fact that the quality of medical degree (MBBS) of Sri Lanka stands on par with even with medical degrees of developed western countries. But there is a great uncertainty regarding the quality of the medical degree which is going to be sold for eight million rupees. Annually there are a very small number of students who spend ten years in the medical faculty having completed all other requirements, but have to leave without the medical degree because of failure to satisfy the prescribed examinations. Those students are also included in the cream who has acquired highest marks at the G.C.E. A/L in Bioscience stream. But they do not graduate due to of the high standards of the medical degrees maintained in Sri Lanka. If we consider a person who has paid eight million rupees for the medical degree, but has been unable to pass the final examination with given attempts, will he/she give up his/her money without getting the medical degree? Then how can they (administration of the PMC) certify the standard of the degree they are going to offer, when the money is going to be the first and most important qualification for entrance to the PMC and what will be the place of the educational qualification of the candidate?



02.Undermining the quality of the health service in Sri Lanka.

In comparison with other countries of the zone, Sri Lanka is not in a position of outstanding economic state. But when we consider the quality and effectiveness of health service in Sri Lanka, it is exceptional. In comparison not only the criteria like maternal mortality ratio (MMR) and infant mortality rate (IMR) but also the control of a number of communicable diseases, Sri Lanka is far ahead. There are so many social and cultural aspects contributing to these phenomena, but the quality of health care professionals especially their knowledge, skills and attitudes are remarkable. But low quality doctorsproduced by “upcoming PMC”s may bring this status down in no time.



03.Establishing a new pathway to ruin the free education system of Sri Lanka.

The free education system of Sri Lanka has already been destroyed to a certain level, and introduction of a PMC (now only one, but if it is allowed, how many are on the way?) will accelerate the process of destroying free education. The establishment of PMCs will be unavoidable, which will be a more popular business among business community, who follows unlimited profits irrespective of the influence on the society of their activities, because medicine is the number one degree which can be sold at the highest price. Thus establishing PMCs will be a turning point towards a total privatization of the whole free education system.



04.Danger of weakening of government medical colleges.

We do not have a surplus of well qualified, well experienced lecturers in government medical colleges. On the other hand in some of government medical colleges, particularly situated far away from Colombo (e.g. Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Rajarata) there is a shortage of academic staff both in quality and quantity.

The proposed PMCs will attract the well qualified, experienced lecturers who are now working in government medical colleges by their large scale salaries. The government medical colleges which are unable to compete financially with PMCs will be encountered with a huge burden of losing their qualified academic staff members. This will lead to a reduction of the quality of the degree offered by government medical colleges.

So we emphasize that PMCs are not only necessary but also harmful for our country. We invite you dear sir/madam, to join hands with us to defeat this attempts of a few that will deprive the right of free education of the children and the free health service of Sri Lanka.

Please contribute to our effort to save free education and health service.............

 

[dinuwije]

Dear sir / madam,

Re-emergence of a private medical college (PMC) threat in Sri Lanka.​

A private medical college has been started as a BOI project at Malambe which is approved by university grant commission with reluctance under influence of powerful figures in the government
The south Asian institute of technology and management has negotiate with a medical faculty in Russia Nizni Novgorod state academy of medicine and plan to sell medical degree at 8 million rupees
Let us see how this private medical college jeopardizes the free education and free health service. To the ordinary people of this country, only system available to become a doctor is through free education (as it should be). If some are getting a medical degree using their power and wealth rather than educational qualifications, what will happen to the wishes of ordinary brilliant students and free education? How can we justify treating those two groups of students in two different ways? The solution should be providing more funds and creating more vacancies in the universities. Here we emphasize the main areas which will be affected by this problem.
01.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]Undermining of the quality of medical degree of Sri Lanka.

It is a fact that the quality of medical degree (MBBS) of Sri Lanka stands on par with even with medical degrees of developed western countries. But there is a great uncertainty regarding the quality of the medical degree which is going to be sold for eight million rupees. Annually there are a very small number of students who spend ten years in the medical faculty having completed all other requirements, but have to leave without the medical degree because of failure to satisfy the prescribed examinations. Those students are also included in the cream who has acquired highest marks at the G.C.E. A/L in Bioscience stream. But they do not graduate due to of the high standards of the medical degrees maintained in Sri Lanka. If we consider a person who has paid eight million rupees for the medical degree, but has been unable to pass the final examination with given attempts, will he/she give up his/her money without getting the medical degree? Then how can they (administration of the PMC) certify the standard of the degree they are going to offer, when the money is going to be the first and most important qualification for entrance to the PMC and what will be the place of the educational qualification of the candidate?

02.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]Undermining the quality of the health service in Sri Lanka.

In comparison with other countries of the zone, Sri Lanka is not in a position of outstanding economic state. But when we consider the quality and effectiveness of health service in Sri Lanka, it is exceptional. In comparison not only the criteria like maternal mortality ratio (MMR) and infant mortality rate (IMR) but also the control of a number of communicable diseases, Sri Lanka is far ahead. There are so many social and cultural aspects contributing to these phenomena, but the quality of health care professionals especially their knowledge, skills and attitudes are remarkable. But low quality doctorsproduced by “upcoming PMC”s may bring this status down in no time.

03.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]Establishing a new pathway to ruin the free education system of Sri Lanka.

The free education system of Sri Lanka has already been destroyed to a certain level, and introduction of a PMC (now only one, but if it is allowed, how many are on the way?) will accelerate the process of destroying free education. The establishment of PMCs will be unavoidable, which will be a more popular business among business community, who follows unlimited profits irrespective of the influence on the society of their activities, because medicine is the number one degree which can be sold at the highest price. Thus establishing PMCs will be a turning point towards a total privatization of the whole free education system.

04.[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]Danger of weakening of government medical colleges.

We do not have a surplus of well qualified, well experienced lecturers in government medical colleges. On the other hand in some of government medical colleges, particularly situated far away from Colombo (e.g. Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Rajarata) there is a shortage of academic staff both in quality and quantity.

The proposed PMCs will attract the well qualified, experienced lecturers who are now working in government medical colleges by their large scale salaries. The government medical colleges which are unable to compete financially with PMCs will be encountered with a huge burden of losing their qualified academic staff members. This will lead to a reduction of the quality of the degree offered by government medical colleges.

So we emphasize that PMCs are not only necessary but also harmful for our country. We invite you dear sir/madam, to join hands with us to defeat this attempts of a few that will deprive the right of free education of the children and the free health service of Sri Lanka.
Please contribute to our effort to save free education and health service.............

aney palayan yako yanne...umbalagey oye gon part methanne danne enna nathuwa maka baa welaa palayan moda hathikarey.....

thawa oye wagey colleges enne oney me ratey...thopigen beheth aragene marena evunta post portem thiyanna hari thawa dostharala oney

 

[dreezone]

01.Undermining of the quality of medical degree of Sri Lanka.
Ok lets say there are higher standards of the medical degree in Sri Lanka. But when considering the reality we as public do not see any higher standards.
Do you know how many people in this country dies due to errors by doctors? If there is a very high standard why is it happening??


02.Undermining the quality of the health service in Sri Lanka.

Can you tell me is there a quality of health service in Sri Lanka? If you get sick and If you are poor the best way is to die. Most of the doctors want their patients to channel them private and ask for medicine. They want to do the tests for their own institution. They do not accept even government reports.

03.Establishing a new pathway to ruin the free education system of Sri Lanka.

How can it ruin the free education system in Sri Lanka??? How can it effect the education upto A/Ls?

04.Danger of weakening of government medical colleges.

How can they get weakened?? Your argument says that the qualified lectures will go to those private universities due to higher salaries. So then what the government should do is increase their salaries as well. If they stop the corruption it can be easily done. What you people should do is that you should force the government to stop corruption and implement proper system for government medical college instead of shouting and closing the gates for more people in this country to become educated professionals.

 

[dinuwije]

me yakku hithanne mung vitharak igene gaththama hari kiyalai....

hithaagena inne loken hondama dostharala inne lankaawe kiyalai....Medicine hoyaagena thiyenne lankawe kiyalai..

patta hathikarey....

wena ratawal avurudhu 5 kin ivara karana course eka mung avurudhu 10 k thisse karane thiyene gon kama hinda thamai....

avurudhu 10 karalath minissu nikan maranawa beheth denne kiyala

 

[kalabola]

i cant bel-ieeeve this sort of medieval mentality still exists still> Face it, u pathetic losers are so damn insecure that u cant handle competition ! Thats it. the rest is BULLSHIT! therunada? if your argument holds, we should shut down every private instituition in Sri lanka, then where would you be?
and stop lying about ur"health standards"; the doctor-population ratio in SL sucks! its even worse than pakistan's. GO to some damn english classes , maybe u'll feel less like a godaya.

 

[aruna1986]

What I believe is there is no great need of establishing PMC in srilanka. When we are considering malabe one, the fee is 80 lacks. Most of the srilankans are middle class families. How can they bear this money, even not having enough money for their day day expenses. The population which can bear this cost is about only 15%.
It is true that there are lots of people having high results, but not able to enter the state medical faculties due to rush. But all of these are benefited by a PMC. How many of them can bear the cost. The people only benefited by a PMC are who can expend 80 lacks. So a child of a teacher or a clerk, a farmer will able to be enter a PMC even they only lack of 0.0001 marks. ???????????

Now the SLMC is also going take an action against malambe PMC, due its low standered. The students do there clinicals in a hospital which only contains 8 beds. So will they be qualified enough to become doctors.

Other disgraceful thing happenning is attracting the staff of state universities to these PMCs. Every one knows that state medical faculties are also tretten by the lack of staff. So if these limited staff leave to PMCs, what will happen to state universties. Already 3 professors left. If there are more PMCs, definitely government faculties have to be closed. There is no matter, state medical faculties produced prestigious doctors not only in srilanka but also in the world. It is also recognized that MBBS(Srilanka), as a top class medical degree. Srilankan health sector is the best among south asain counties. It is because of the standered of srilankan medical education, as well as the dedication of the health sector employees ( But this a result of not only the dedication of the doctors).
Ministry of Heath tells that there is no room for doctors after 2010. So what is the use of producing doctors than the demand. There is deficiency of doctors in rural areas. but who ever passed out from a PMC will like to work there???

BUT................................................................


It no doubt that people who have the ability should have the chance to learn, but it should not depend on the money. So PMC is not an answer for that.

So What do we have to do......................

It is no doubt that government is expending vast amount of money for higher education. I have 15 of my classmates in state medical faculties and lots of others in other faculties. So i have an idea what is happening there. University students are having their hostel facilities free of charge. Not only that electricity, water and food for affordable price. Apart from that Mahapola for most of them.
Are these students behave responsible for what they are having. I had being in there hostel many times. The Fans and lights are working 24hrs. water is overflowing all the times in the basins. there r lot of things. Do they do these things at their own homes.

So. students should charge for hostels and also for electricity and water. bcoz they also have to pay for these also in their homes. 90% of Mahapola receivers are disqualified to it. Most of them use that to pay their telephone bills. so Mahapola should be canceled. It is good to give free education. but what is the use of giving them others. They should be charged for internet facilities.

It is true that doctors do not gain an enough salary in srilanka and they do not have a better environment here. but they educated from the money of the people. So they have a great responsibility to serve people even under above situations. Some of the doctors migrate to other countrie after receiving their graduation. New laws should be introduced to recollect trice of up to date money which spent for them. If they refuse to pay, their degree should be canceled.
The money spent for their degree should be recollected all government uni degree holders, after giving 5 years of pay free period. Otherwise their degrees should be canceled.

The most irresponsible thing done by universities is the ragging. Even medical students appriciate ragging. Did u enter universities to do ragging or to be ragged. There are lots of inhuman things happen in ragging. you should give priority to ur studies, not to these stupid things, because you are learnng from others money. Most of university students told that rag is to make the people. So i shold like to ask

What do you expect from newcomers(NC) by forcing them to remove all their clothes infront of others?
What do you expect from newcomers(NC) by forcing them to masterbate infront of others?
What do you expect from newcomers(NC) by asking them to smell others anus and check whether they have washed their back?
What do you expect from newcomers(NC) by asking them to touch others sex organs?
What do you expect from newcomers(NC) by forcing them to do various inhuman things?
there are lot to ask but this is enough for now.

If a person can be changed by ragging, what is the use of training psychiatrists, maintaining psychiatric clinics, spending vast amount of money? Why cant even this stupid medical students understand this.

IS THERE ANY UNIVERSITY STUDENT BRAVE ENOUGH TO ANSWER MY QUESTIONS????

According to my view srilanka is not much benefited by PMCs.

BUT..................................

Srilankan University students must be 100 times responsible than now.