KUALA LUMPUR, JULY 8- Health Minister Dr S Subramaniam was non-committal when questioned on whether he would use his ministerial power to reinstate Crimea State Medical University (CSMU) to the list of varsities recognised by the Malaysian Medical Council (MMC).
“We have a system. MMC is the professional body (to handle this),” he said. Last week, PKR human rights and legal bureau deputy chairman S Jayathas urged Subramaniam to use his ministerial clout to reinstate CSMU.
Jayathas recalled that Subramaniam himself had appealed for the reinstatement in October 2010, while the latter was serving as the Human Resources minister.
In 2005, CSMU was struck off from MMC’s list but the government failed to give a satisfactory explanation to the decision.
In 2010, Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak issued a letter to MMC, urging the latter to reinstate CSMU’s recognition, after Koperasi Pekida Malaysia Bhd (Pekida) appealed to the premier on the matter.
When told of the Najib’s letter to MMC, Subamaniam said,” I’m not involved in the process. I’m not even a member of MMC.”
About 1,000 Indians and 500 Malay students have graduated from CSMU throughout the years but those who graduated post-2005 were not able to practice medicine in Malaysia, despite the university enjoying international recognition.
