The Derecognition Controversy

Looks like the withdrawal of recognition of the CSMU medical degree is turning controversial and drawing flak especially from MIC. The MIC president appears to be exasperated. There are said to be some 470 Indian Malaysian medical student in CSMU! Samy is alleged to have accused the MMC of wanting to pevent Indian students from studying medicine.
Not providing CSMU with a grace period to rectify any shortcomings in its medical course is certainly controversial. Lets hope good sense will prevail as so many of our students are involved.
The Opposition leader is going to move an urgent motion in Parliament tomorrow calling for the suspension of MMC's withdrawal of recognition of Ukraine’s CSMU medical degree. His motion reads as follows ::

“That under SO 18 the House gives leave to the Ketua Pembangkang and MP for Ipoh Timor YB Lim Kit Siang to move a motion of urgent definite public importance, viz the Malaysian Medical Council’s derecognition of Ukraine’s Crimea State Medical University (CSMU) medical degree.

“CSMU has become the single biggest university, whether in Malaysia or in the world, with the highest concentration of Malaysian students pursuing medical studies, with some 1,100 Malaysian students i.e. about 300 Malays, 240 Chinese, 470 Indians and 25 others, with students sponsored by government and other agencies, such as Angkatan Tentera Malaysia, MARA, Yayasan Selangor, Yayasan Terengganu, MIED, KOJADI and various banks.

“MMC cannot be faulted in refusing to compromise with patient safety or wanting to ensure that Malaysian students in medical courses, whether locally or abroad, are trained to become quality doctors when they graduate and not be shortchanged, but the MMC must act with fairness, transparency and flexibility, or it has only itself to blame if it is accused of ulterior motives like the serious allegation by the MIC President Datuk Seri Samy Vellu that the MMC just wanted to stop Indians from becoming doctors.

“Unless the CSMU medical standards are irredeemably low, in which case it should never have been given recognition in 2001 in the first place, it is only fair and right that CSMU should be given a grace period to comply with whatever shortcomings found by the MMC, and not for derecognition to be announced so arbitrarily, summarily and absolutely.

“MMC should immediately suspend its decision on derecognition of the CSMU medical degrees, make public the shortcomings of the CSMU medical programme and give the CSMU a grace period to comply with them before a final decision on derecognition is made.”

Yours sincerely,

(Lim Kit Siang)

Ketua Pembangkang
MP for Ipoh Timor