Friday, September 26, 2008

More And More Patients Are Hospitalising Due To Receiving Wrong Drugs


The cases of Patients who are hospitalising due to suffering from various ailments after taking the wrong Drugs issued by the Unqualified Pharmacist in the Private Pharmecies for the prescriptions are in increase according to the Ministry Of Health.One patient hospitalised due to a ailment caused by the Drug "Methane" issued by the unqulified pharmacist for the "Metfomene" prescribed by the Doctor for Diabetese and another patient Received Lithium Carbonate which is prescribed for Epilepsy instead of the Calicium Carbonate Tablets prescribed by the doctor for his Calcium Deficiancy syndrome Ministry Official said.There are lot of incidents happend like this in the past few months he added.

Health Ministry is currently training some 800 pharmecists for the private sector to curb this unqualified pharmecists menace he said.Our target is to train 3000 qualified pharmacists for the private sector he revealed.Also Health Ministry decided to amend the Cosmetic,Devices and Drugs act No.27 of 1980 giving powers to closed down Pharmecies running without a qualified pharmacists and without a license he said.

Sri Lankan Doctors Faced Problems After Health Ministers Statment Charged GMOA


Sri lankan doctors who are seeking post graduate training in foriegn countries not able to find a suitable place due to the Irresponsible statement made by the Health Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva regarding the doctors in the third world countries who are not return to their motherland after their postgraduate training in Developed Countries Assistant Secretary of the Government Medical Officers Association(GMOA) Dr.Upul Gunasekara Said Yesterday(26).Addressing a Press Briefing at A GMOA Office in colombo Dr.Gunasekara further Said that the Health Minister Should Examine the causes for not returning of these doctors and implement a method to bring them back instead of trying to undermine them by saying Developed Countries should Expel them. Even India who are sending trained doctors to the developed countries in large scale crticized the Sri Lankan Health Minister's Statment he added.
GMOA yesterday sent a Letter to the President,all the cabinet ministers and to the party leaders opposing the above Statment made by the Sri lankan Health Minister at a World Health Organization meeting held in London last weak.
There are around 400 Sri lankan Doctors who are staying in developed countries after completed their Post Graduate Training and 1500 Doctors who are training as specialists Dr.Gunasekara further added.

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