A doctor has asked the Medical Council to take action against Health Minister Chris Fearne for being made to wait seven years without receiving a reply to an application for specialist status.
The doctor, who also requested action to be taken against the Superintendent of Public Health Charmaine Gauci, Kenneth Grech and Tanya Melillo Fenech, president and vice-president of the Malta Association of Public Health Medicine and Stephen Fava, chairman of the specialist accreditation committee, is claiming that less specialised and experienced doctors at the time of his application were elevated to specialist status.
He said that when he applied for the specialisation, all that was needed to become a public health specialist was a basic medical or dental degree plus four years post-Licensure experience and a postgraduate diploma or degree in public health.
His application in 2010, he said, was neither accepted nor rejected preventing him from seeking a judicial remedy which primarily required a decision to made before an appeal could be heard.