One Died and Twenty Six injured Due To A Train Accident At Ganemulla

One Died and Twenty Six others got Injured when two trains were collided each other at the Ganemulla Railway station this evening.Fort to Kandy and Fort to Polgahawela Trains were collided in this Incident.

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Air Force Jets Destroyed Female Black Tiger Training Center

Fighter Jets of the Sri Lanka Air force Destroyed the LTTE'S Female Black Tiger Training Center run by LTTE Leader Pottu Amman at east of Dri Arukulam in the Kilinochchi District around 12.15 p.m Yesterday (27) Security sources said. Meanwhile Security Forces captured 1.5 Kilo Meters of Nachchikuda area in the Aranayakulam Road this evening and 1o LTTE Cadres and 2 soldiers were killed during the confrontation.

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.

Penicillin Proved To Be Bacteria Ressistant

Surveillance conducted at the Borella Lady Ridgway Hospital revealed that the ninty percent of Bacteria Isolations are Ressisted to the Anti Biotic Drug Penicillin.Earlier known as the "Wonder Drug "Penicillin is now not an effective Drug as early days said Paediatrician Professor Sanath Lamabadusuriya.Therefore Lady Ridgway Hospital only uses the penicillin when there is an urgent situation Doctors of the hospital said.

According to the Surveillance some other High active Anti Biotics also emerging as bacterial ressistant.

How ever when contacted a Higher Official of the Ministry of Health said That still Government is importing the Drug Penicillin for the Government Hospitals as Doctors Prescribing it and upto now no complaints has been recieved by the Ministry questioning the effectiveness of the drug.Even other countries are still using the Penicillin he further stressed.

Deaths Due To Dog Bites Are On Increase

Twenty four deaths reported throughout the Island from January this year upto now due to Dog Bites Deputy Director General of the Health Services (Public Health)Dr.Sarath Mahipala said yesterday(24).Last year there were 28 deaths due to Dog Bites he said.Out of 2.5 million dog population in sri lanka Ninty Percent are Stray Dogs he stressed.

According to the official statistics around 2000 Dog Bites were reported throughout the island annually.470,000 Dogs were vaccinated against Rabies this year upto now and the World Health Organization is allocating Rs.91 million for vaccinating another 200,000 Dogs by next year he further added.Government spend around Rs.500 million for treating dog bitten wounds and only Rs.100 million allocated from the budget for the Anti Rabies Campaign activities for this year.