Wednesday, July 15, 2009

The Scheduled One Day Token Strike Of Medical Proffessionals Suspended

The One Day Island Wide Token Strike scheduled to be launch tomorrow by the Professions Supplementary To Medicine(PSM) of Government Hospitals was suspended following the results of the Discussion held this Evening between the Health Ministry Officials and the PSM union.

The PSM Professionals compromising The Government Pharmacists,Radiographers,Medical Laboratory Technologists,Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapists decided to launch an Island Wide Token Strike tomorrow over Six of their Service Demands.

Sri Lanka Canceled 200 Million Dollars Worth Of Ammunitions After The War

Sri Lanka canceled 200 Million Dollars worth purchase of Ammunition from Pakistan and China after the end of it's war with LTTE Terrorists New Chief Of Defence Staff and former Army Commander General Sarath Fonseka says today.

The Order would have been enough Ammunition to fire guns and heavy weapons at the rate seen during the climax of the War which ended on 18th of May he stressed.He made these remarks at his Swearing-in Ceremony as the New Chief of Defence Staff today.

General Fonseka also said that around 800 members of the breakaway Tiger Group joined the Armed Forces.

Four Essential Drugs Prescribing For Kidney Transplant Patients Are Out Of Stock

The lives of Around One Thousand Kidney Transplant Patients in the Island are in danger as Four Essential Drugs prescribing for them are out of stock at All the Government Hospitals these days.The Drugs "Cyclosporine", "Sepasti"Erithroprotien and Tractotoklamus" are out of stock in the Hospitals since two weeks according to the Government Hospital Sources.

Out of One Thousand Kidney Transplant Patients in the Island Eight Hundred Patients are getting treatment from the Nephrology Kidney Transplant Unit of Kandy General Hospital in the Hill Country.Six Hundred Fifty of these Patients are receiving the Drug "Cyclosporine" and Seven Hundred Eighty receiving "Sepasti" according to the Doctors.Plus these Drugs these patients receiving the Drugs "Erithroprotien" and "Tracktotoklamus".

These Out Of Stock Drugs are not available in the Medical Supplies Division too and the Major Hospitals issuing these Drugs The Colombo National,Kandy General and Sri Jayawardenapura Hospitals.These Drugs are very Expensive in the Private Sector and One Patient need to spend more then Eighty Thousand Rupees monthly for purchasing these Drugs.The Kandy Kidney Patients Safety Fund headed by the Two Chief Incumbents of the Malwathu and Asgiriya Chapters made a written request to the President Mahinda Rajapaksha few days back to make an arrangements to import these Drugs soon as Possible for the use of these Kidney Patients.

Putin Hails Crimea Anexation After Election Win

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