Sri Lanka will be able to strengthen ties with other countries and save billions of rupees as a result of legalising the minimum standard for medical education, media spokesman for the State Medical Students’ Parents’ Union Wasantha Alwis said.
According to Alwis, racketeers will not be able to snatch money of parents and create issues between Sri Lanka and other countries using medical education.
It was the racketeers who were behind blocking the amendment passing in Parliament during the past one and half decades because they were earning billions of rupees by sending unqualified students to foreign universities illegally.
Alwis said that as a result of the activities of these racketeers who sent many unqualified medical students abroad for money, around 600 unqualified `MBBS doctors’ are in the country and another 300 or more to be added to this number soon due to the process took place before passing the amendment in Parliament on November 3.
Legalising the minimum standard for medical education will prevent the unqualified becoming MBBS doctors using money, he said.
“Now, the legal minimum standard for medical education is there. But still we have to work hard to win what we demanded. It is the two B passes (2 Bs) and one credit pass (1 C) as the minimum standard for medical education. There should be a separate unit at the University grants Commission (UGC) to send qualified Sri Lankan students to foreign universities,” he said.