Sri Lankans In Denmark To Hold A Protest Campaign In Front Of Danish Parliment

Sri Lankans and their friends in denmark are due to hold a protest campaign in front of Danish parliment, falkstinget this friday urging the security and freedom of the In displaced tamil civilians who are still trapped in rebel held areas in the northern sri lanka.these in displaced people should allow to return to the government held areas without any barrier organizers of this protest said.they also requesting to supply essential goods including food,drugs etc, to these people without any shortage.

Health Ministry Recommended A Retired Hospital AO An Extension?

Ministry of Health is recommended the public services commission an extension for a sixty year old chief administrative officer of the south colombo teaching hospital who should be retired from the service last year.according to the policy of the government those who are sixty years old should be retired from the government service.
Due to this irresponsible act of the ministry junior administrative officers are not able to get a chance for applying the post health workers pointed out.health ministry recommended this extension of the recommendation of previous director of the teaching hospital it has been revealed.

Colombo National Hospital Defeated U.K Hospitals On Number Of Neuro Surgeries Performing

National Hospital in colombo take one year to perform the amount of neuro surgeries performed by the high tech equipped U.K hospitals within six years it has been revealed.an english hospital with seven neuro surgeons performed around 700 neuro surgeries a year compared to the 4500 such surgeries performed by the two surgeons of the national hospital under limited resources hospital sources said.The senior consultant neuro surgeon of the hospital dr.sunil perera said that indian hospitals are not performing such an amount of surgeries even they are having high quality technology and enough surgeons.

GMOA Charged Health Ministry On Irregularities While Purchasing Pethidine Injection Vials

There is an illegal dealing while purchasing the pethidine injections as three hundred sixty thousand vials of above injection were removed from the government hospitals after expiring them assistant secretary of the government medical officers association(GMOA) dr.upul gunasekara charged today.addressing a packed press briefing in colombo to day he said that the worth of these removed injection vials are around rs. 1.8 million.due to the removal of these vials there is shortage of this injection at the government hospitals these days.
only two hundred sixty thousand pethidine vials were used at the government hospitals in year 2007 but the health ministry ordered four hundred thousand vials of the injections which is more then the required for the use of 2008 he stressed.purchasing more then the required amount may be the reason behind expiring them before using he pointed out. dr.gunasekera also said that it is sad to see health minister nimal siripala de silva who is also the current chairman of world health organization is offering more drug tenders to the supplier who supplied most number of low quality drugs to hospitals.
He also urged health minister to implement national drug policy to prevent irregularities on purchasing drugs in future

Government To Ship 40 Tonnes Of Rice To IDP'S In Mulativu Tonight

Government is due to ship 40 metric tonnes of food items to night for the use of In displaced people(IDP'S) still trapped in rebel held areas of mulativu district in the north.government officials arrived this decision at a special meeting held this evening

Foreign-Australian Fire Fighter Feeds a Koala With Water

This photograph shows an Australian fire fighter feeding a Koala Bear With water bottle.this koala was found in the forests of Victoria which were destroyed from last week's bush fires.Millions of viewers around the world viewed this Picture and the video of the incident.An Australian Animal Rights Movement already announced award for this fire fighter for his courageous act.
Photo Courtesy-Crickey Blog

Neuro Surgical Patients Facing Difficulties Due To Broke Down Of Several Machines In National Hospital

The Neuro Surgical Patients and the staff of the Sri Lanka's Major Government Hospital the colombo national hospital are facing enormous difficulties due to the broke down of several several million rupees worth neuro surgical machines in the hospital including the MIR scanning machine,the Angio gram and all the cratiotome machines use for cutting the surgical point.
Due to this the MRI and Angio gramme Tests of the neuro surgical patients of the national hospital are done through the private sector.
Around 4500 surgeries are performed in Colombo national hospital annually and it is higher then in some of the hi/technical hospitals in United kingdom.
Therefor not taking any measures to repair these machines from long time is unacceptable according to the Hospital Sources.the MRI Scan machine is broken due to the problem of it's tube and four Cratiotome machines were broken a month back and Neuro surgeons are now cutting the point of the surgery from hand used equipment which is harder to do doctors said.
C.T Scan Machine in the neuro surgical unit is also prone to break regularly due to the overload of the scan tests performed through that machine they stressed.when contacted Hospital Director Dr.hector weerasinha said that the repairing of MRI Scan Machine is due to finish tomorrow but he is not informed on breaking down of other machines in neuro surgical unit