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Heart Patients Due To Undergo Heart Operations Including Bypass And Tests At Kandy Hospital Are In Battle Of Life And Death Due To The Closure Of Cardio Thoracic Unit

Kandy Teaching Hospital

All  Heart Surgeries including Bypass  and tests that identify the heart diseases performing at Cardio thoracic Unit of  Kandy Teaching Hospital have been stopped since 02nd of September According to All Ceylon Nurses Union.

Due to this situation the Patients who are in Waiting Lists of the hospital for Heart Surgeries and Tests are facing a battle of  life and death the Union has said.

The closure of Cardio Thoracic Unit for repair work including tiling  the floors of Theaters and Wards is the main cause for this situation.

Around 1200 Heart Patients registered for Heart Surgeries including Bypass at the hospital and 1500 patients registered for Tests including "Angiogramme Test" are in difficult situation due to this according to the president of All Ceylon Nurses Union A.Gamini Kumarasinha.

The Nurses Union has yesterday (08) requested the Director General Of Health Services Dr.Palitha Mahipala to intervene this situation and open the Cardio Thoracic Unit of Kandy Teaching Hospital with immediate effect.

THOUGHT OF THE DAY

Seventeen Year Old School Boy And Another Suspect Arrested Over five year Old Seya Sadewmini's Murder Have Filed A Petition At Human Rights Commission

The 17 year old school boy and other suspect who were arrested by Police over the rape and murder case of five year old Seya Sadewmini of kotadeniyawa area have filed a complaint at Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka today(08) by alleging they were assaulted by police officers of Kotadeniyawa Police while in custody.

The Human Rights Commission has questioned the two complainants  as well as accused police officers of kotadeniyawa police regarding the allegation.The said suspects were later released after their DNA Tests did not matched the DNA Samples taken  from girl's body.

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THIS LANDSCAPE PAINTING WAS DONE BY YESTERYEAR NEW ZEALAND FEMALE ARTIST RITA ANGUS.SHE IS CREDITED AS ONE OF THE LEADING FIGURES IN  TWENTIETH CENTURY NEW ZEALAND ART.RITA  WORKED IN OIL AND WATERCOLORS AND  SPECIALIZED ON PORTRAIT AND LANDSCAPE PAINTING.

Due To A Tense Situation Occurred At Parliament This evening -Speaker Adjourned the House

Due to a tense situation occurred at Parliament this evening the Speaker Karu Jayasuriya has adjourned the house for ten minutes .

A tense situation has occurred after Speaker has dismissed a request made to him by a group of Opposition MP's to table a letter submitted to the house by former minister dinesh gunawardena regarding transfers of several senior officers attached to the Central Bank.

The tense situation arisen when speaker has told the house he will table the said letter tomorrow instead of today.

A POPULAR SINHALESE SONG SUNG BY CHANDRALEKHA PERERA