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This post is also related to SAITM issue. In the society, if a person is going to buy a phone, the buyer will ask several questions about its quality, price, warrantee, and ask from several different people about their opinion about the phone. Then only the person will make up his mind to buy the phone. So, lets see what happened with SAITM. First the advertised they are accepted by SLMC, GMC of UK, UGC of Ministry of Higher Education, affiliated to some Russian Institute, and have twinning programme with final years in Russia. All of this without having a teaching hospital of its own. Within 1 week of this advertisement, SLMC advertised in all the newspapers that it does not recognize the MBBS degree offered by SAITM. Yet the students joined the institute and the government allowed the recruitment to take place. Nowhere in the world such a thing would take place. A higher education institute not approved by the state being allowed to recruit students. Usual and the logical process in ...

This post is part of a series in addressing the several questions posed by the people who support SAITM, private medical college in Sri Lanka. Foremost point they argue on is that all the other countries are having private medical colleges why Sri Lanka should not have them. First let's take the countries who are in the top 10 positions in the Human Development Index of United Nations and also the regional countries (SAARC) and compare their GDP, percentage of GDP on health, education, health level, structure of their medical education. Human Development Index is a summary measure of average achievement in key dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life, being knowledgeable and have a decent standard of living. (1)  HDI Rank Country Life Expectancy at Birth Infant Mortality Rate per 1000 live births Maternal Mortality Ratio per 100000 live births Total Health Expenditure as % of GDP Government expenditure on education as % of GDP Expenditure on educa...