Is GMOA above the law?

From Ceylon Today

This newspaper Tuesday reported that members of the Government Medical Officers' Association (GMOA) are threatening to go on a lightning strike, if the government continues to summon its officials to the CID to be questioned over what they term as 'minor' incidents.
GMOA Spokesman Dr. Naveen de Zoysa during a media briefing said their Secretary Dr. Nalinda Herath was questioned for over an hour by the CID over a printing mistake.

Earlier, it was reported that the CID has summoned GMOA officials for questioning on an alleged typographical error in a booklet published by the GMOA in 2012 regarding the setting up of a specialists' register and the introduction of an evaluation procedure for foreign medical specialists, due to the large number of 'unqualified' Indian doctors practising in private hospitals.
The GMOA views this as an attempt by the government to threaten and silence their opposition to the proposed Economic and Technology Co-operation Agreement (ETCA).

While the causes which prompted the CID to summon the GMOA members to be questioned over a matter as old as three years remain a separate issue, one cannot help, but wonder whether the GMOA members are above the law of this country.
While they make a hue and cry about one of their officers being questioned for an hour, they seem to have forgotten that there is a former Head of State and several other VVIPs walking in and out of the CID and the FCID or other Commissions of Inquiry day in and day out. That is because no one is above the law and if there is a matter in question it should be resolved by conducting a proper investigation.

A person, who is certain that his hands are clean and without blood stains on them, should not worry. This is not the first time the doctors held patients to ransom to threaten the government to win their demands and from the looks of it, this will most certainly not be the last.

We understand that doctors have to spend long years and shed sweat and blood to earn their status than any other professional in the country. But, what we do not understand is that on what basis the doctors get to be invincible before the law.

It is plausible that they are sticking together as a union to win their rights and fight for causes of common interest. Yet, can one deny the fact the body is governed by pure hypocrisy. They are up in arms against any kind of private or semi government medical schools, but have not and will not say a word against private hospitals in the country.

The demand by the public sector to get Rs 10,000 salary increment could not be won so far, largely due to the simple fact the GMOA is pushing the government to the wall by launching trade union actions.

Every time they take trade union action holding innocent patients' lives at ransom, the government will have to give into their demands as ultimately it is the government that is responsible for the lives of its people.

The GMOA today threatens a countrywide strike at a time they have failed to take any action against their colleagues who are implicated in an international kidney racket. Are they suggesting this matter too, shall not be investigated?

The people of this country do not lack intelligence not to differentiate a fight for a genuine cause from that of a political game. The GMOA which was held in high regard a few years ago, has lost its dignity as the public has now realized that their fights are not more than ones influenced by classism. The GMOA will be able to regain its long lost image once they realized that respect is something that one should earn, but not demand, and the day they stop holding patients to ransom to avoid facing the law of the country.