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.

WHO Stressed The Need Of A Vaccine To Control Swine Flu

As Spreading of Swine Influenza (H1N1) throughout the World is unstoppable and every country should be provided a Vaccine to Controlling it World Health Organization(WHO) Announced Today.How ever Still not a Single Pharmaceutical Company is able to Produce an effective Vaccine for the Disease according to WHO.

Swine Flu is responsible for claiming the lives of 500 Patients and around One Million were affected from the Disease so far according to the WHO.

Sri Lanka Beat Pakistan By Seven Wickets In The Second Test Match

Sri Lankan National Cricket Team Beat Pakistan by Seven Wickets today in the Second Test Match Played at the P.Sarawanamuttu Stadium with a day to spare.With this win Sri Lanka won the Three Match Test Series by 2-0.
The Scores.
Pakistan First Innnings 90 All Out(N.Kulasekera 4/21)
Sri Lanka First Innings 240 All Out(Sangakkara 87, Gul 4/43, Ajmal 4/87)
Pakistan Second Inings 320 All Out(F.Alam 168,Younis 87 and R.Herath 5/99,N.Kulasekera 4/37))
Sri Lanka Second Innings 171/3 (M.Warnapura 54)

Sri Lankan Leg Spinner Rangana Heratha and Fast Bowler Nuwan Kulasekara adjudged as Man Of The Match for their brath taking wicket taking.

Slight Decrease In Spreading Of Dengue

The Total number of Dengue Patients reported throughout the Island is decreased within last two weeks according to the Director of the Sri Lankan Epidemiology Unit Dr.Pabha Palihawadana.However this decrease may be a Shorter One and if the Rain will prevails in coming weeks Spreading of Dengue will increase again she stressed.

Addressing a Press Briefing in Colombo today she said that the Total number of Dengue Patients reported from last week showed a decrease of 418 from the Number that reported in a week before that.Dengue Deaths too shown a slight decrease according to her.

Sri Lankan Sprinter Strikes Gold In Lusofonia Games

Sri Lankan Sprinter Chaminda Wijekoon won the Gold Medel in Men's 1500 Meters Track Event in the Second Lusofonia Games at Portugal today.Sri Lanka also won the Bronze Medels in Both Relay Events worked out today.

Cancer Hospital Nurses And Health Ministry Is In War

The Nursing Staff attached to the Maharagama Cancer Hospital In Sri Lanka restricted the Giving Chemo Therapy to Cancer Patients citing Lack of Nursing Staff for the Job,Poor Facilities inside the Wards and lack of Protective Equipment.The Chemo Therapy treatment is resricted to 300 Patients a day out of 500 Patients who ware administered this treatment earlier.

Meanwhile The Director General Of Health Services Dr.Ajith Mendis said that the Ministry Of Health decided to recruit 69 new Nursing Officers to the Cancer Hospital in the places of those who are not administering the Chemo Therapy to the Patients.

Government Proffessions Supplementary To Medicine To Launch An Island Wide Strike

Five Categories belongs to the Professions Supplementary To Medicine(PSM) of Government Hospitals decided to launch an Island Wide Token Strike on this Thursday(16) over Six of their Professional Demands according to the Joint Federation of the Professions Supplementary To The Medicine.These demands including the appointing of Grade One and Special Grade officers of the PSM and paying the Over Time Allowances recommended by the Wimal Jayantha Committee.

The Pharmacists,Radiographers,Medical Laboratory Technologists,Physiotherapists and the Occupational Theraphists are the categories that launch an Island Wide Strike.However the PSM officers attached to the Maharagama Cancer Hospital,De Soyza Maternity,Castle Street Maternity and Lady Ridgway Chidren's Hospital in Colombo not particapating the Strike due to Humanatarian Reasons Joint Federation stated.