Dr Boo Cheng Hau said after checking the health ministry’s Medical Register Information and Technical System (MeRITS) website, as of midnight, only one MMC member did not hold an APC.

“It shows the efficiency of the MMC to update the APC list.

“I would like to thank the council members and the MMC for rectifying the matter and for appreciating the magnitude of the legal consequences of their inaction,” he said in a statement.

Boo’s statement comes a day after he called on the government to look into why a “vast majority” of MMC members allegedly did not hold valid APCs, adding that it was required by law for council members to be fully registered medical practitioners with valid APCs.

He had said if MMC members did not possess an APC, they were not deemed to be “fully registered practitioners” and hence were not qualified to sit on the council. It also implied that decisions made by the MMC could be rendered illegal.

According to Boo, he had checked both MeRITS and the National Specialist Register repeatedly to confirm if the majority of members did not hold an APC.

He also consulted specialists and IT consultants, cross-checking the names with different spellings and “flipping the names” around to confirm the validity of his findings.

In his statement today, Boo urged the MMC to “reunite” the medical fraternity regardless of various pathways programmes they had completed, their political convictions and ethnic backgrounds and to upgrade the standards of health care, including primary health care.