ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. The controversial private medical college in Sri Lanka has refused to stop the enrollment of students to the institute. Vice Chancellor of South Asia Institute of Technology and Medicine (SAITM) Prof. Malkanthie Chandrasekara has reportedly turned down requests by the Health Ministry and the Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA) to suspend enrolling students.
The Vice Chancellor has said the authorities or the GMOA had nothing to do with the institute's enrolment process.
Prof. Chandrasekara has explained that the quality and standard of the medical degrees awarded by the SAITM come under the purview of the University Grants Commission (UGC) and the Sri Lanka Medical Council (SLMC).
She has added that most of the basic requirements for a private medical college have been provided by the institute and a few remaining facilities were under preparation as SAITM has been given 18 months to complete the requirements.
The Medical faculty of SAITM is actually the Sri Lankan Campus of Nizhny Novgorod State Medical Academy of the Russian Federation and is a foreign institution although most of the academic staff is from Sri Lankan universities.
Meanwhile, the Health Ministry has appointed a five-member committee to probe the gazette issued by the Higher Education Ministry permitting the institute to grant MBBS degrees and the standard of the institution.
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