Medical specialists condemn assault

Medical Specialists Associations have condemned the alleged assault on Sri Lanka Medical Council (SLMC) Registrar Dr N J Nonis.

In a statement issued recently, they said: "The Councils and the membership of the Sri Lanka Colleges of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Paediatricians and Surgeons and the Ceylon College of Physicians are deeply concerned and note the deliberately planned assault on Dr N J Nonis, Registrar of the Sri Lanka Medical Council by unknown persons near his residence.

"Such behaviour is by no means acceptable. We wish to request the government of Sri Lanka to take all necessary action to bring the assailants before the law urgently. The government has a duty to ensure that such acts where people take the law unto their own hands in trying to coerce the Sri Lanka Medical Council to accede to their desires do not take place in future. Such incidents will jeopardise and compromise medical education and healthcare in the country.

"We wish to assert that the Sri Lanka Medical Council is the official body that governs the practice of medicine and medical education in Sri Lanka.

"All institutions of medical education must strictly abide by the rules and regulations currently in place and follow the procedures diligently."