Govt.To Privatize The Medical Education By Allowing A Private Medical Collage Here Inter Medical Faculty Union Charged

Government is Trying to Privatizing the Medical Education by Giving Permission to Set Up Private Medical Collage in Malabe Area The Medical Faculty Inter Student Action Committee Charged To Day .Government Already Gave Permission to the New Private Medical Collage Set Up with the Collaboration from a Russian Medical Academy the Convener of the Committee Asanga Said .The Medical Faculty Inter Students Action Committee is Planning to Launched Protest Campaign against these Private Medical Collage He Says.
The Five Year Course Designed by this Medical Collage is to begin this September and the Collage already Called Applications to Recruiting Acadamic Staff He Stressed.
A student who wishes to Study under this Programme have to spend Rs.5 Million and He/She have to Study Four Years in Sri Lanka and the Final Year in Russia He Further Added.

Troops Liberated Kuruwilkulam

Troops Attached to 57th Division To Day Liberated the West of Kuruwilkulam Area in the Mulativu District Security Sources Said.

Ninteen IDP'S Shot And Killed By The Rebels While Trying To Escape

Nineteen In Displaced Persons(IDP'S) who tried to Escape from Rebel Held Areas were Shot Dead and Another 75 people Got Injured By The LTTE Rebels This Morning at the Udayar kattu in the Puthukkudiyirippu Area According to Security Sources.They are A Part of Around 1000 Came to the Cleared Areas To Day and their Bodies were Brought by the Escapees.
So Far Around 30,000 People Returned from the Rebel Held Areas.Yesterday Alone 6000 People Returned According to the Sources.These People are Located in 10 Social Welfare Centers in Settikulam and the Vavuniya Districts and Sufficient Number of Medical Personal already Recruited to these Centers to Provide Medical Facilities to Them Health Minister Nimal Siripala De Silva Said At a Press Briefing Held To Day in the Health Ministry.It was Revealed that More Than 500 Pregnant Mothers are there Among the Returnees.