Police report against Health Minister

Alumni lodges police report against the Health Ministry for giving inaccurate information in parliament on the Ukraine medical school issue.

PETALING JAYA: The Health Ministry was alleged to have given inaccurate information in parliament when it claimed in its written reply that Ukraine medical school CSMU had failed to submit an appeal to the Malaysian Medical Council (MMC) on its derecognition by the council.

The reply was to Ipoh Barat member of parliament M Kulesegaran’s questions on the progress of the reinstatement of CSMU as a recognised university for medical studies.

This led to CSMU alumni Dr Mohd Amin Mohd Ismail lodging a police report in Taiping in bid to compel the police to investigate the Health Minister Dr S Subramaniam and MMC.

He also questioned on why the ministry accepted the MMC report after its audit visit to the university in October last year since MMC was being probed by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC).

On Monday, deputy Health Minister Dr Hilmi Yahya had confirmed that his ministry did not recognise the undergraduate medical programme offered by CSMU as the university had failed to meet the accreditation criteria.

Malacca PKR vice chairman G Rajendran claimed that CSMU’s chancellor AA Babanin had on July 30, sent an official letter to Subramaniam, requesting him to review and reconsider the derecognition of CSMU.

Rajendran had also insisted that the medical school had until today not received a feedback on the de-recognition.