SAITM’s  Final Solution on 28th

The Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) yesterday said that President Maithripala Sirisena had promised to provide a final solution to the South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine (SAITM) issue on Monday(28).

Addressing the media at the Presidential Secretariat premises following a discussion with President Sirisena on the SAITM issue, GMOA Secretary Dr. Haritha Aluthge said,  that overall discussion was a success.

We have forwarded a request to the President to issue a gazette ordering the suspension of student admissions and the degree awarding at the SAITM. It is also necessary to gazette the minimum standards of medicine,” he added.

He said that President Sirisena had also assured them to provide the government’s stance on the SAITM through the Attorney General to the Supreme Court where a hearing was taking place with regard to this issue. Haritha Aluthge that the Attorney General had agreed to abide with the President’s decision on the SAITM Issue.

He was of the view that this assurance given to them by the President was a great achievement of the anti-SAITM forces in the country, including the GMOA.