Any reaction from HPCNA?
Anonymous writes:
The report in Republikein of 2 July 2019 with the heading “Te min tyd vir buitelandse studente” and the complaint that medical students who last year wrote the pre-internship examination paper prepared by the HPCNA did not have enough time to complete same, refer.
The question has been asked in the past whether the HPCNA is empowered to conduct any regulatory power relating to the affairs of the health related professions. The HPCNA does not have, and I repeat DOES NOT HAVE, any power relating to the conducting of any examination whatsoever in respect of any student in the medical or other health related professions.
Such a power only vests in the professional Council concerned established for each health profession by the Social Work and Psychology Act, 2004 (Act No. 6 of 2004), the Allied Health Professions Act, 2004 (Act No. 7 of 2004), the Nursing Act, 2004 (Act No. 8 of 2004), the Pharmacy Act, 2004 (Act No. 9 of 2004), and the Medical and Dental Act, 2004 (Act No. 10 of 2004), respectively, to conduct the affairs of the profession concerned, and not in the HPCNA.
Due to the fact that the HPCNA is not established by or in terms of any law, it does not have any legal or regulatory powers in so far as it relates to the conducting of the affairs of any health related profession governed by the laws mentioned. It therefore acts illegally and unlawfully in so far as it conducts or purports to conduct any examination contemplated in the laws mentioned or to exercise any other power in that laws relating to a particular health related profession.
Maybe the registrar of the HPCNA can once and for all clarify this issue and advise the Namibian public in terms of what legislation the HPCNA derives its powers to “regulate” any health profession?
The report in Republikein of 2 July 2019 with the heading “Te min tyd vir buitelandse studente” and the complaint that medical students who last year wrote the pre-internship examination paper prepared by the HPCNA did not have enough time to complete same, refer.
The question has been asked in the past whether the HPCNA is empowered to conduct any regulatory power relating to the affairs of the health related professions. The HPCNA does not have, and I repeat DOES NOT HAVE, any power relating to the conducting of any examination whatsoever in respect of any student in the medical or other health related professions.
Such a power only vests in the professional Council concerned established for each health profession by the Social Work and Psychology Act, 2004 (Act No. 6 of 2004), the Allied Health Professions Act, 2004 (Act No. 7 of 2004), the Nursing Act, 2004 (Act No. 8 of 2004), the Pharmacy Act, 2004 (Act No. 9 of 2004), and the Medical and Dental Act, 2004 (Act No. 10 of 2004), respectively, to conduct the affairs of the profession concerned, and not in the HPCNA.
Due to the fact that the HPCNA is not established by or in terms of any law, it does not have any legal or regulatory powers in so far as it relates to the conducting of the affairs of any health related profession governed by the laws mentioned. It therefore acts illegally and unlawfully in so far as it conducts or purports to conduct any examination contemplated in the laws mentioned or to exercise any other power in that laws relating to a particular health related profession.
Maybe the registrar of the HPCNA can once and for all clarify this issue and advise the Namibian public in terms of what legislation the HPCNA derives its powers to “regulate” any health profession?
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