NUTA questions over US military Doctors in North – SLMC and GMOA in Silence

In the backdrop of American military doctors giving medical care in the North, the National University Teachers’ Association (NUTA) queried today whether these foreign medical practitioners obtained ‘ethical clearance permission’ from the authorised bodies in Sri Lanka to collect blood samples of Sri Lankan citizens.

NUTA President Dr. Channa Jayasumana said that the NUTA learnt of measures by these American military doctors to collect blood samples of some ex-LTTE Tamil terrorists to determine whether they had been injected with poisonous substance during rehabilitation process.

Dr. Jayasumana, a senior lecturer of Rajarata Medical Faculty, said blood samples of individuals should be collected, for other than treatment purposes, only with ethical clearance permission. “I direct this question at Sri Lanka Medical Council and the Health Ministry to let the country know whether it was done,” he said. He said nobody knew whether blood samples of Sri Lankan citizens would be collected in this manner for genetic studies or anything.

SLMC and GMOA are vigorously regulating foreign doctors who are coming to practice in Sri Lanka through various red-tapes based administration. Scores of students studied in private medical college in Malambe and other foreign Universities are in limbo due to such approach and attitude of officials in the SLMC and GMOA. However, pro-Yahapalana government SLMC and GMOA are maintaining strict silence on this controversial medical practice in the country by the US Military medical team which grossly violating all medical ethical standards  and sovereignty of the country.

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