Ambiga fears future doctors view studies through racial lens
Published: May 25, 2024 5:36 PM
Former Bersih chairperson Ambiga Sreenevasan has expressed concern about certain students looking at issues through a racial lens.
She was referring to the action of the Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) student council which held a campaign objecting to the admission of non-bumiputera medical students to continue their studies in the field of cardiothoracic surgery.
“In the UiTM issue, medical students were protesting the admission of non-bumiputera students. I am worried about what kind of doctors they will become later.
“That they see medical studies through a racial lens goes against doctors’ principles and it is totally unacceptable,” she said.
Ambiga spoke as a panellist at the Bersih Congress held at the Kuala Lumpur and Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall today.
On April 25, health news portal Codeblue reported UiTM-IJN Parallel Pathway Programme board member Raja Amin Raja Mokhtar as saying that UiTM agreed to open a path for non-bumiputera trainees to obtain advanced education in cardiothoracic surgery there, following a lack of experts in the field.
As a response, about 100 UiTM students staged a protest on May 14 against temporarily opening the higher education institution’s doors to seven non-bumiputera medical officers for that purpose.
They also wore black clothes to express their opposition, in the campaign that used the hashtag #MahasiswaUiTMBantah.
However, the student council later apologised by describing what happened as a “mistake” and saying it had learnt from the incident.
Many so called educated malays are the worst racists in Malaysia
ReplyDeleteAlas . education did not open the minds , just warped it
MFs
There's always been an undercurrent of racism even in medical circles in Malaysia.
ReplyDeleteThe entrenched racial biasness turned it's full bigoted head upon the full existence of the f*cked giatunas program!
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