GMOA Prevented a Docs Strike In Vavuniya Hospital

Government Medical Officers Association(GMOA) of sri lanka to day prevented a possible strike action of the doctors attached to the vavuniya general hospital in the northern sri lanka citing the present conflict situation prevailing there.all fifty doctors in the hospital earlier planned to stage a walkout opposing the administration of the hospital director but reduced that action to a one hour protest campaign after GMOA intervened to the scene.According to the assistant secretery of the GMOA dr.upul gunasekera his union held discussions with the docs there this morning and urged them to prevent any inconveniences to the people in the area.At present large number of civilian and forces casualties are dispatch to the vavuniya hospital.

UN Under Secretary General Urged LTTE To Refrain From Shooting Civilians

The visiting under secretary general of the united nations sir john holmes urged LTTE to avoid civilian casualties and allow civilians to move into safer areas.Speaking at colombo this morning he says that the LTTE should refrain from shooting on civilians.sir holmes is in colombo on an invitation from the sri lankan foreign minister rohitha bogollagama. he also met defense secretary gotabaya rajapaksha at his ministry.

Eighteen Thousand Pethidine Vials Are Air Lifted To Ease Severe Shortage Of The Injection

Ministry of Health to day air lifted 18,000 vials of essential pain killer injection "pethidine" from India which is currently not available in government hospitals .Although  this stock is much lesser then the annual requirement it will help to ease the shortage for few months ministry officials said. shortage of pethidine vials have occurred after the medical supplies division removed large number of expired pethidine vials from the government hospitals on end of January.due to the shortage of this injection wounded patients and pregnant mothers are facing difficulties hospital sources said.there was much controversy on the shortage of this injection among doctors and even health minister to day announced in parliament that pethidine shortage will be ended after these air lifted vials are distributed to the hospitals
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Hospital doctors charged that some kind of irregularity had happened when purchasing this injection as the ministry has  imported large number of pethidine vials exceeds the required amount.