Dental association to appeal over its de-registration

The Star

BY LOH FOON FONG

PETALING JAYA: The Malaysian Dental Association is drafting an appeal to the Home Ministry over its de-registration by the Registry of Societies (ROS).

The MDA announced on its website that it received a de-registration notice on June 6, saying activities in relation to the association would be suspended immediately until further notice.

“We are making every possible effort to resolve this unprecedented crisis,” said its president Dr Teh Tat Beng.

He believed the de-registration might be technical, and “somewhat related to the proposed purchase of a building”.

“However, we regret that we cannot comment in detail pending the appeal to the authorities,” he added.

Dr Teh urged the public to bear with the association as it tried its best to resolve the predicament so that it could continue to pay its staff and service the public as well as more than 4,000 members throughout the country.

At MDA’s Annual General Meeting on May 31, the association was directed to defer the purchase of three adjoining shoplots in Kelana Jaya, Selangor, and to come up with a new set of resolutions to approve and purchase a building that was within its financial means.

The AGM also mandated the MDA council to convene an EGM to come up with appropriate resolutions on the purchase of what is to become the new MDA building.

According to a notice dated June 5 on MDA’s website, the association was scheduled to hold an extraordinary general meeting in Kuala Lumpur on June 22, but this was cancelled.