Government Reduced The Fuel Prices

Government Decided to Reduced The Prices of Gas,Petrol, Diesel,Kerosene Oil and Furnace Oil with Effect from Midnight Tonight(30).The Price Of a Shell Gas Cylinder Reduced from Rs.166 and Laugfs Gas Cylinder From Rs.276 According to the Consumer Affairs Minister bandula Gunawardena.Petrol Liter Is Reduced by Rs 20 for the Three wheelers and Rs.2 Per Liter for Others Minister said during the Special Cabinet Briefing Held This Evening.The Prices of the Diesel,Kerosene and Furnace Oil Liter are Reduced by Rs.10.Four Liters of Petrol will be Issued to The Three Wheelers Per Day for the New Price He stressed.

Four Hundrad Twenty Eight Drugs, Surgical And Lab Items Are Out Of Stock At The Government Hospitals

Four Hundred Twenty Eight Essential Pharmaceuticals,Surgical Items and Lab Chemicals Are Out Of Stock at the Medical Supplies Division(MSD) attached to the Health Ministry and Most of the Government Hospitals These Days Hospital Sources said Today(30).MSD Informed about This Out Of Stock Drug Items To the Health Ministry on the 15th of this Month.Fifty Four Pharmaceuticals,Three Hundred Fifty One Surgical Items and Twenty Three Lab Items are Out Stock.Cephalexin Capsules(250m.g),Cephalexin Syrup,Salbutamole,Oxitocin,Chloramphenicol Injections,Surgical Items like Needles,Sutures and Some Cessiors and Lab Chemicals like Ethyl Acitate and Ethyi Alcohol Are Among these Out of Stock Drug Items According to the MSD.The list of These Out Of Stock Drug Items Published in the Health Ministry's Official Web Site.

One Hundred Seven Petrol Filling Stations To Transfered To The CPC

The 107 Petrol Filling Stations Belongs to the Petroleum Storage Terminal Management Limited and One Third of It's Shares owned by the Treasury will Transfered to The Ceylon Petroleum Corporation(cpc) after Receiving the Cabinet Approval Petroleum Minister A.h.m Fowzie Said.The Trade Unions attached to the Petroleum Corporation Earlier Demanded that the CPC Should Take Over the Above Petrol Filling Stations.

Board Of Directors Of The Seylan Bank Suspended And Bank Of Ceylon Took Over Their Management

Monetary Board Today(29) Suspends The Board Of Directors of The Seyaln Bank One of the Leading Private Banks In Sri lanka with Immediate Effect and Allowed Bank Of Ceylon To Took Over It's Management.Mr.C.Narangoda Appointed as The New Chairman Of Seylan Bank and the Current CEO and the Bank Employees Remained Unchanged According to the Central Bank Of Sri Lanka. This Action will not Effect to the Customers Services According to the Bank Sources.The Owner Of the Seylan and Chairman of the Ceylinco Group Lalith Kotalawala Last Saturday Announced that the Debt Ceylinco Investments Owned to their Golden Credit Card holders following the Financial Freud happened there will be paid by divesting Ceylinco's shares of the Seylan Bank. Afterwards The Banking Unions Demanding the Government to Take Over The Seylan Bank. The Business of the Seylan Bank will Begin Tomorrow(30) as Usual.

Government Doctors Stop Prescribing the Thyroxine Tablets Distributed To The Govt.Hospitals-Patients Are Facing Difficulties

Patients who are Suffering from the Thyroxine Deficiency Are Facing Difficulties due to the Government Hospital Doctors are Not Recommending them the Thyroxine Tablets available in the Government Hospitals saying that they are Not Effective.The Thyroxine Tablets available in the Government Hospitals are Not in Good Quality and due to this Doctors Prescribed their Patients to buy A Brand of Thyroxine Tablets available in Private Pharmacies which is very expensive Hospital Sources said Today(29).A batch of The Thyroxine Tablets in Govt.Hospital Pharmacies were Removed due to the Quality Failure few months ago.But the Stock of Thyroxine Tablets supplied afterwards are also In the Same Brand which is not Effective Dr.Upul Gunasekara The Assistant Secretary Of the Government Medical Officers Association(GMOA)Says.We Shown this position to the Health Ministry but they said that only the 50 Micro Gramme Thyroxine Tablets are having this Problem But Widely used 100 Macro gramme Tablets are fine Dr.Gunasekera stressed.However Doctors Denied Both Forms of These Tablets which are Manufactured Here He Said.

JVP To Hold A Protest In Colombo Tomorrow Demanding The Bringing Down Of Petrol Price

Opposition Peoples Lioberation Front(JVP)is to Conduct a Protest Campaign Tomorrow in Colombo against the Government Decision on Not Reducing the Petrol Price Immediately As Ordered by the Supreme Court.JVP Parlimentarian Vijita Herath Said at a Press Briefing Held in Colombo Today(28) that Govt.Should Implement the Supreme Court Order By Reducing the Petrol Litre to Rs.100.Responding to the Main Opposition United National Party's(UNP) Decision of Holding a Joint Protest Campaign To Protest against Govt's Decision On Petrol Price ON January He said that UNP has no right to Represent on behalf of thePeople as they too are Responsible for this crisis.

National Democratic Front Today Joined The Govt.. After Signing MOU

National Democratic Front(NDF) The Breakaway Faction of the People's Liberation Front (JVP) Today(28) Signed a Memorandum Of Understanding(MOU)with the Governing United People's Freedom Alliance(UPFA) and Joined the Government.The Secretary Of the NDF Parliamentarian Nandana Gunathilaka and Secretary of the UPFA Education Minister Susil PremJayantha Signed the MOU behalf of their Parties.Defeating The LTTE militarily is believed to be the Main Issue of the MOU.President Mahinda Rajapaksha,NDF Leader Wimal Weerawansa and Several Govt.and Other Parliamentarians Attended this Occasion.