Kiriella Blasted GMOA

The GMOA staged a token strike on Friday (7^th, April) demanding the closure or nationalization of SAITM, the only private medical degree-awarding institution in Sri Lanka.

Subsequently Highways and Higher Education Minister Lakshman Kiriella has blasted the Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) for interfering in Sri Lanka’s medical education.

He said, that the provisional registration of medical graduates, who passed out from SAITM would be addressed by the government in consultation with the Sri Lanka Medical Council (SLMC).

Further he said, the GMOA was merely a trade union and had no right to interfere in this matter and neither was it a party to the Court case filed by the aggrieved parties.