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Thursday, September 13, 2018

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Western Provincial Governor Has Cancelled The Orderi Of Importing Luxurious Chairs From Belgium.

Western Provincial Governor

Hemakumara Nanayakkara has ordered the authorities to cancel an order to import 125 Luxurious chairs to the Western Provincial Council at a cost of Rs. 640,000 per a chair from Belgium with immediate effect.

Western Provincial Governor has made this order after receiving a report of a committee appointed by him to inquire on the chair order.The luxurious chairs were to be imported to the Council as per the orders of Western Provincial Chief Minister I sura Devapriya.

However after the Leftist Janatha Wimukthi Peramuna (JVP) MP Lakshman Nipunaarachchi has made a written complaint to the Westetn Provincial Council Governor against the chair order, The Governor had temporary suspended the order and appointed a committee to inquire on this.

The Governor has ordered the authorities to order the required chairs to the Western Provincial Council from a local company .

Health Minister To Send Indeginous Doctors To An International Cannabis Conference

While a Cabinet Paper has submitted to

the Cabinet by seeking approval to cultivate Cannabis locally for medicinal purposes ,Health Minister Dr.Rajitha Senaratne has decided to send a group of Ayurveda /Paramparika Doctors to an International Cannabis Conference to be held in Israel Shortly .

Addressing a Provincial Council Health Minister s Summit held at National Blood Bank at Narahenpita this morning (13) Health Minister has stressed that although inhaling Cannabis is bad for human health using it as a medicine proven as have health benefits through experiments conducted in Western countries .

Countries like Canada and Britain had already removed the ban imposed on cultivation of Cannabis for medicinal purposes and Canada has begun to produce nedicines by using Cannabis Minister has stated.

A programme will be implemented to take the illegal Cannabis cultivation Lands raided and taken in to custody by police under the Ayurveda Drug Corporation after consulting with Ministries of Judicial and Law and Order to facilitate using of Cannabis to local Ayurveda drug production he has further said .

Nursing Staff Of Colombo National And Kandy Teaching Hospitals To Protest Infront Of Those Hospitals Tomorrow (14)

Nursing Staff attached to Colombo

National and Kandy Teaching Hospitals is due to conduct a protest campaign in front of those hospitals at 11.30 a.m tomorrow morning (14) by demanding solutions for several demands of Nurses including paying of 2016/2017 arrears of overtime paymemts according to All Ceylon Nurses Union .

Authorities have failed to.provide solutions for these demands for a long time the Union has stressed.

Cabinet Approved A Proposal On Upgrading Ratnapura Hospital To A Teaching Hospital

Cabinet has approved a proposal on upgrading Ratnapura General Hospital to a Teaching Hospital to facilitate clinical training of Medical students scheduled to be recruited to the newly built Medical Faculty of Sabaragamuwa University.

Seventy five Medical Undergraduates are due to be recruited as the first batch of Sabaragamuwa Medical Faculty by this December according to the Ministry of Health.

As Ratnapura Hospital is upgrading as a Teaching Hospital facilities will be developed to open a Professors Unit at the Hospital to facilitate clinical training of Sabaragamuwa Medical Students Health Minister Dr.Rajitha. Rajitha Senaratne has stated.