While the Government is yet to address the demands raised by professionals of the services supplementary to medicines regarding the recruitment of graduates, the Joint Council for Professions of Supplementary Medicine (JCPSM) urges the authorities to expedite the amendment of the current Scheme of Recruitment (SOR) as proposed.

Speaking to The Daily Morning, JCPSM Secretary Chanaka Dhramawickrama said that the unions have sent their proposals to the Public Service Commission (PSC) highlighting that the SOR should be amended to address the existing issues related to recruitments. 

"We have sent our proposals to the PSC and we urge the Government to directly recruit graduates from government universities based on the merit system. Otherwise, there is a risk of this process being politicized," he said.

He also said that when recruiting people for medical services, there is a policy of giving priority to graduates from State universities over those from private and foreign universities, so that the same should be applied to the supplementary services as well.

"The recruitments are carried out based on merit, determined by an examination conducted by the University Grants Commission. However, this time, the Government has deviated from the usual recruitment policy. If recruitments for all other medical services are done according to one system, why is a different system being used for our services? Since the Allied Health Science degree was introduced in 2005, the medical community and medical administrators have not accepted these graduates well," he added.