Token strike against attack on Medical Council Registrar
Posted by Editor on October 5, 2011 - 1:36 pm
The Sri Lanka Medical Council launched a token strike from 8am today (October 5) to 12 noon in protest of last evening’s attack on the Registrar of the Medical Council, Dr. N.J. Nonis.
Dr. Nonis was assaulted by two unknown individuals near his residence at Rawatawatta last evening.
The perpetrators who had reportedly arrived on a motorbike at around 6.30pm (October 4) had called the doctor outside by claiming to want to know directions, before attacking him with a club.
Courtesy: Ada Derana
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Dr Nonis is definitely a traitor.
The private university is being set up so that our boys and girls (and young men and young women) can be in the professions overseas instead of being toilet cleaners in Korea and street walkers in the Middle east.
Dr Nonis and his clan are being career protectionist not letting his profession be open to the children of the common man.
There should be no constraints on opportunity; the will to learn should be encouraged and not discouraged by Dr N and his ilk.
I wonder what my Guru, Mr Nicholas Dias, has got to say on this matter. He is after all, the last living patriot, the erudite scholar and the nation’s psyche.
Dr Nonis may have been attacked by JVP thugs, the anarchists, who are against development. While India and China are developing fast by sensible policies, such as private universities, so as to ease the burden of free State tertiary education, JVP thugs are for anarchy and chaos in SL, to prevent development on fast track in keeping with Mahinda Chintanaya.
We need private universities for children of parents who can afford private education for their children. This will free-up places in state universites for children of low income families. They will then be able to have tertiary education also. There are many such children who are bright and had obtained good grades but were not offered university places as the numbers were limited.
Let us emulate India and China in building private universites for children, whose parents can afford them such education. This will also save us much needed foreign exchange from flowing out. Besides, private universities in SL will generate much needed foreign exchange by admitting foreign students to their universities.
Ofcourse, JVP and their ilk would prefer to see chaos in SL, so they can creep in to capture power through the back door by revolution.
Well done Nicholas, your thoughts are shining stars.
I wouldn’t say that private universities are only for the rich. Private Universities are institutions created by investors who expect monetary and social benefits from their investments.
They are of course, fee levying institutions. The Government, the community and the Industry will sponsor young men and women who have the innate capability of becoming doctors to these institutions. The innate capability is demonstrated not only by gaining top marks in exams but include other social outlooks and a yearning to keep mankind alive and a yearning to find a cure for cancer etc.
The private medical industry including the huge private hospitals should sponsor undergraduates. Government institutions such as the Pradeshiya Sabhas should sponsor candidates from their areas.
The primary reason for the establishment of private educational universities is to transfer investment responsibility from the public sector to the private sector.
They are neither competition nor a threat to state insitutions. They are not elitist institutions.
If Dr Nonis and his ilk want to keep the number of Doctors in the country down through deprivation of opportunity in order to bolster the earning capacity of the membership of his association, he is being a frog in the well.
Dear Guru
I whole-heartedly agree with you on the need for private universities with excellent standards, and that private institutions, State institutions, as well as the private universities themselves, should offer scholarships to well-deserved bright children from low-income families and villages, so that they too have the opportunity of tertiary education to serve their motherland.
However, Dr Nonis should not have been attacked by thugs, on a contract perhaps, from his enemies. Any disagreements should be disussed and settled by healthy debate.
VP and the LTTE failed miserably on this score, that is why they had to be eliminated wholesale at the end. DC, JS and such kallathoni support brigade can jump into the Palk strait and swim back home to big mama land. We will never give them eelam raj in whatever guise. Go get knotted!
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