Friday, January 8th, 2010 12:23:00
Dr Ampikaipakan also resigns as MIED trustee
KUALA LUMPUR: Well-respected consultant chest physician Tan Sri Dr K. Ampikaipakan has resigned as chairman of AIMST Sdn Bhd, the management company of Malaysia’s first private university, Asian Institute of Medicine, Science and Technology University (AIMST).
He also tendered his resignation as trustee of the MIC’s education arm, the billion-ringgit Maju Institute for Education Development (MIED) that owns the university at Semeling, Kedah.
The resignations took effect yesterday, said MIED founding member Tan Sri K.S. Nijhar.
Nijhar said Dr Ampikaipakan did not state his reasons for resigning from both posts.
The Malay Mail understands that at least two other directors are expected to follow suit, plunging the management of the university into deeper problems.
Nijhar said the remaining seven trustees were expected to meet soon to discuss Dr Ampikaipakan’s resignation and name the potential replacement.
He said Dr Ampikaipakan had served AIMST and MIED with full dedication and that it would be difficult to find someone of his calibre as replacement.
Dr Ampikaipakan, a community leader with an outstanding career of more than three decades in medicine and education, both in the public and private spheres, had been AIMST chairman since it was founded on March 15, 2001.
Nijhar said Dr Ampikaipakan provided critical leadership to the university in its formative years and ensured its sustained growth in consonance with the aspirations of its founding fathers.
Dr Ampikaipakan was not available for comment.
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