Time to review doctors’ involvement in administration -President

It is time to re-review the involvement of doctors in the administrative service. A comparative methodology has to be followed when doctors are appointed to the administrative posts in the health sector, the President pointed out during a discussion with a deputation of the Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA) yesterday.

It is for the medical officers to make available their professional expertise to the country and it is also their duty to serve the people through their knowledge, he said. The President instructed the officials to commence immediately a housing project for the medical officers in the interest of a quality health service.

The deputation thanked the President for his gesture to propose a housing scheme to medical officers which no other leader in history ever pledged.

In addition, they said the medical officers had secured a number of victories in their respective fields and appreciated the President’s contribution to all such victories. The deputation presented their proposals for the new Act to regulate the private medical institutions.

The President instructed the officials to study the amendments proposed by the deputation and thereafter give effect to the Act without delay.

The President further instructed the officials to give effect to the Act within a specific time frame so that undue delays could be avoided. Problems faced by the doctors in their respective fields were widely discussed.