Police report lodged over MMC election

Explanation given thus far surrounding the MMC election has not been able to pacify suspicious parties.

PETALING JAYA: A police report was lodged against the Health Minister Dr S Subramaniam and his ministry’s Director General Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah over alleged irregularities in the Malaysian Medical Council’s (MMC) election process.

A Subendran lodged the report at the Taiping police station yesterday urging the police to investigate Subramaniam and Noor Hisham, who is also the president of MMC, claiming that ‘something’ was wrong in the election which was held between June and July 2013.

On Friday, FMT reported that MMC’s election was questionable as some doctors admitted of not receiving the ballot papers.

However, Noor Hisham told FMT on Sunday that the problem might have been due to some doctors failing to inform the council of their latest address.

Subramaniam also confirmed that only 11% (4,000) from the total 35,000 doctors had responded to the election.

However, Subendran chided the duo for blaming the doctors on this matter.

“The question is very simple. When MMC managed to send Annual Practicing Certificates (APC) to all the 35,000 doctors every year to their proper addresses, why they can’t they do the same thing for the MMC election?” he asked.

“It is highly impossible to have 31,000 wrong addresses,” said Subendran.

“As we are all aware that the APC is renewed annually and as such there is a very slim chance of one not receiving the ballot but received the APC,” he added.

Subendran also pointed out that Noor Hisham, in his Facebook, claimed that there was a possibility that the ballot papers might have been dumped by lazy postmen similar to a recent case in Ampang.

“I believe Noor Hisham is under pressure to the extent he is giving lame excuses by accusing POS Malaysia on this issue,” said.

He also challenged Subramaniam to conduct a fresh election to prove that MMC was not veiling anything in the recently completed MMC election.

This was the second police report lodged against Subramaniam within two weeks. Previously, an alumnus from CSMU lodged a police report over an alleged false information in parliament in regards to the Ukraine-based medical school.