South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine (SAITM) student’s Union of the first batch to graduate held a press conference yesterday.
In press conference they claimed that they too deserve to serve as doctors in Sri Lanka as they are on par with those from State medical faculties.
They rejected media reports and allegations degrading their medical degree. They said it was disappointing that the Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) and other groups continued to make baseless allegations against SAITM without having a proper understanding of the real situation. The union said the Government had failed to provide an opportunity to a majority of those, who had passed the GCE A/L exam to study for the medical degree.
It emphasized the need for government support for SAITM and other private sector medical college.
“We are happy and proud to say studied at SAITM, the only place to provide us opportunity to serve our motherland as doctors. If not for SAITM we would have gone aboard for medical studies. We want to serve our country and our people.
