Medical Students Action Committee Urged The Government To Cancel The Appointment Of Professor Carlo Fonseka

The Medical Students Action Committee has today urged the government to cancel the political appointment of Professor Carlo Fonseka as President of Sri Lanka Medical Council and appoint an Independent  intellectual to the Council with immediate effect.

Speaking at a Press Briefing held in National Library Services Board in Colombo today (03) the convener of Action Committee Nilan Fernando has said that they will launch a series of protest campaigns with  participation of  Medical Students in coming weeks against the appointment of Professor Carlo Fonseka as SLMC President and to protest against Malabe Private Medical Collage.

" Professor Fonseka's appointment was a politically motivated one and it will directly affected the ongoing crisis on controversial Malabe Private Medical Collage as well as the bogus certificate issue of a group of Assistant Medical Practitioners" he has stressed.There fore government should cancel the politically made appointments like these which are favoring them in crisis situations " Convener of the Medical Students Action Committee further said.