00:00 Four senior specialists have stepped forward to defend the Parallel Pathway Programme
00:06 after a senior consultant paediatric surgeon argued against recognition of specialists under the programme
00:12 through amendments to the Medical Act.
00:14 The four are Dr Musa Nordin from Damansara Specialist Hospital,
00:19 Dr Zulkifli Ismail, Dr Irwin J. Khoo and Dr Timothy Cheng.
00:24 They said Dr Dayang Anita Abdul Aziz's remark on amending the Medical Act 1971
00:30 to resolve the non-recognition of parallel pathway training for specialists
00:34 was naive and forgets the historical context in this matter.
00:38 In a joint statement, they said prior to 1973,
00:42 the Parallel Pathway was virtually the only trainer and supplier of the nation's specialist manpower,
00:48 adding that Malaysians owe the programme a debt of gratitude
00:51 for the many competent specialists it has produced.
00:54 They were responding to a Code Blue report quoting Dayang,
00:58 who has a postgraduate certificate from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh,
01:02 as saying the Parallel Pathway was not equivalent to training programmes of Malaysian universities.
01:08 The four senior doctors sarcastically said they were blown away by her bravado
01:13 and maintained that Health Minister Zulkifli Ahmad
01:16 should proceed with proposing amendments to the Medical Act.
01:19 [MUSIC PLAYING]
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