Call to repeal restrictive Supervised Division

By Lloyd Mudiwa. The IMO has called upon the Government to immediately repeal the Medical Practitioners (Amendment) Act and remove the Supervised Division from the Medical Register, labelling it “insidious”. This comes after delegates at the organisation’s recent AGM in Killarney unanimously carried the motion proposed by the IMO NCHD Committee. New IMO Vice President Dr Matthew Sadlier, representing the Committee, said from 2007 since its passing “we have brought motions on a regular basis on the principle that there’s problems with the Medical Practitioners Act and it needed revisions and we told the Government ‘please come talk to us’…