{"id":45902,"date":"2016-03-28T16:09:56","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T20:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=45902"},"modified":"2016-03-28T16:09:56","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T20:09:56","slug":"sri-lankan-gmoa-opposes-etca-with-india-because-it-may-lead-to-massive-influx-of-indian-doctors-to-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=45902","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan GMOA Opposes ETCA with India Because It May Lead to Massive Influx of Indian Doctors to Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\nBy P K Balachandran<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sri Lankan doctors are opposing the government\u2019s bid to sign an Economic and Technical Cooperation Agreement (ETCA) with India on the grounds that in the absence of a sound regulatory mechanism in Lanka, the ETCA will lead to a massive influx of Indian doctors, threatening the prospects of local medical professionals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is an urgent necessity to amend the Sri Lanka Medical Ordinance to define a specialist and set the qualifications and the procedure to test the qualifications,\u201d said Dr Nalinda Herath, an office bearer of the Government Medical Officers\u2019 Association (GMOA), which is in the vanguard of the on-going agitation against the ETCA.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p> \u201cIn the Medical Ordinance there is no definition of a specialist specifying qualifications and the procedures for the assessment of qualifications. While the state medical sector has defined a specialist, with specified qualifications and procedures for assessment, there is no such system in private medical sector. And it is the private hospitals which recruit foreign doctors,\u201d Herath told Express on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Sunday Island quotes a GMOA booklet by former Health Secretary T R C Ruberu to say that there is no adequate provision for the regulation of foreign specialists and for the scrutiny of their qualifications and work experience. The system is \u201cnon-transparent and arbitrary\u201d and the standards are \u201cpoor\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile India does not allow foreign doctors to practice without a certification of the Medical Council of India, Lanka allows Indian doctors to practice without a similar professional certification from the Sri Lanka Medical Council,\u201d Dr Herath added.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:New Indian Express<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton45902\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D45902&amp;text=Sri%20Lankan%20GMOA%20Opposes%20ETCA%20with%20India%20Because%20It%20May%20Lead%20to%20Massive%20Influx%20of%20Indian%20Doctors%20to%20Island&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By P K Balachandran Sri Lankan doctors are opposing the government\u2019s bid to sign an Economic and Technical Cooperation Agreement (ETCA) with India on the grounds that in the absence of a sound regulatory mechanism in Lanka, the ETCA will lead to a massive influx of Indian doctors, threatening the prospects of local medical professionals. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=45902\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Sri Lankan GMOA Opposes ETCA with India Because It May Lead to Massive Influx of Indian Doctors to Island&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45902"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45903,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45902\/revisions\/45903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}