PETALING JAYA: The Malaysian Medical Council (MMC) says it had never recognised cardiothoracic surgeons from a school within the UK regardless of the well being ministry declaring that these teams of medical doctors may apply for gazettement as specialists.
However, MMC president Dr Radzi Abu Hassan stated they’ve been made conscious of points associated to those cardiothoracic surgeons who graduated from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, which falls beneath the well being ministry’s parallel pathway programme.
Radzi, who can also be the well being director-general, stated a process drive has been set as much as resolve the difficulty.
“The process drive was set as much as give you a decision as rapidly as potential, which shall be communicated to the related stakeholders sooner or later,” Radzi stated in an announcement immediately.
On March 19, the ministry stated cardiothoracic surgeons qualifying from the school may apply to be gazetted as specialists.
Also eligible for gazettement are household medication specialists from the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, and the Irish College of General Practitioners, in addition to plastic surgeons from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.
According to a letter addressed to heads of departments sighted by eNM, the ministry stated the particular medical committee that met on March 13 had agreed to permit these qualifying as specialists from these schools to use for gazettement.
Last Monday, a senator, Dr RA Lingeswaran, requested the well being ministry to make clear why the MMC determined to stop recognising the parallel pathway programme for cardiothoracic surgeons concerned in twinning programmes with universities within the UK.
Lingeswaran, a former director of the Sungai Bakap Hospital in Penang, stated it was “nonsensical” that nations like Singapore and Hong Kong proceed to recognise the coaching offered by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, however Malaysia doesn’t.
Citing the ministry’’s data, he stated the specialist course beneath the parallel programme had been recognised till 2021, earlier than it “out of the blue went lacking” from the record of recognised postgraduate {qualifications} within the MMC web site and no cause was offered.
Two days in the past, senior medical doctors claimed the MMC rejected the functions of some eight cardiothoracic surgeons and 100 household medication specialists educated beneath the PPP for itemizing on the National Specialist Register (NSR), regardless of repeated requests from the well being ministry to take action.
They warned that the refusal to recognise these specialists may have a severe impression on hospitals beneath the ministry and that it was going to be catastrophic as there are solely 14 cardiothoracic surgeons in seven public hospitals now.
In his assertion, Radzi stated the MMC was not in opposition to any of the parallel pathway programmes nor have been they being discontinued.
MMC’s curiosity is to make sure that the coaching programmes performed within the nation fulfil the related authorized and statutory necessities, he stated.
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“In truth, there are a number of programmes within the parallel pathway which have been recognised by the MMC, whereas within the case of these nonetheless not but recognised, the related our bodies have been knowledgeable to take steps to fulfil the related authorized necessities for accreditation and recognition,” he stated.
