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.

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.