Health Ministry Ordered Pharmaceutical Reps.To Meet Hospital Docs Only Twice A Weak

Ministry Of Health Directed All The Hospital Directors From a Circular To Allow Private Pharmaceutical Company Sales Representatives Only Two Days A Weak To Meet Hospital Doctors Instead of Everday Allowed to Them by Earlier.According to The Ministry Sources Pharmaceutical Reps will Not Allowing to Meet Doctors at their Clinics or Wards and Can Meet Them In Meeting Places or Seminar Rooms.

Rivira Editor And His Wife Were Attacked And Stabbed By Four Persons

Four Unidentified Persons Armed with Poles and Knives Attacked and Stabbed the Chief Editor of the "Rivira" Newspaper and the President of the Editors Guild Mr Upali Tennakoon This Morning.He and His wife on their way to Work from Their House at Imbulgoda in The Gampaha District When this Attack Occured.Mr.Tennakoon and His Wifa Mrs.Dhammika Got Admitted to the Accident Service of the Colombo General Hospital and Their Condition is Stable Doctors said.
Four Unidentified Gunmen Who Came with Motor Bikes Blocked the Mr.Tennakoon's Vehical and They Broken the Windskreen of His Side and Attacked Him with Knives According to Mrs.Dhammika who was in front Seat at that time."I Screemed And From My Hands Covered Him.When I Covered Him They Stabbed His Face from the Knives and My Right Hand Too was Injured From the Attack.After Attacking us Thugs Fled Away In Front of the Crowd Gathered there" She Stressed.Thugs Involved in this Attack Covered Their Faces with Helmets Mrs.Dhammika Further Added.

Malaysia On Alert Over Prabakaren

Malaysian Police Chief Musa Hassen To Day Ordered a Nationwide Alert on LTTE Leader Velupillai Prabakaren as It is Reported that He May have Fled to malaysia.
Meanwhile Sri Lankan Troops Today Captured an LTTE Control Center In Mulativue and a Boat Manufacturing Plant in Pudikuduirippu Area.

Arjuna Files A Case Against The Sports Minister

Former Cricket Interim Committee Chairman and Parlimentarian Arjuna Ranathunga To Day(22) Filed a Fundamental Rights Case In The Supreme Court Against The Sports Minister Gamini Lokuge's Decision On Dissolving The Interim Committee Few Weeks Ago.He Claiming Rs 5 Million Damage from the Minister and Requesting to Reinstate the Dissolved Committee.

LTTE Refused To Allow UN Staff Return From Vanni

LTTE Refused To Allow UN Staff Working in Vanni as Humanitarian Mission to Return From Vanni with Their Present convoy UN Office In Colombo Announced To Day(22).UN Office Strongly Protest Against the LTTE Move.

LTTE Hold 150 Health Workers As Hostages

Health Services Trade Union Alliance(HSTUA) To Day Revealed that The LTTE Forcibly Taken 150 Health Workers Including 20 Nurses Attached to the Kilinochchi Hospital As Hostages and Holding them inside a Temporary Hospital Building at Mulativue.Others who Are Taken as Hostages Including Minor Staff and Public Health Inspectors served in the Northern Provincial Hospitals.The President of the Alliance Mr.Saman Rathnapriya Requested LTTE To Released These Health Personal and Allow them to Move in to The Government Held Areas.

Jayawardanapura Hospital Is A White Elephant -GMOA

Government Medical Officers Association To day Condemned the Poor Governing of the Sri Lanka's Only Semi Government Hospital Sri Jayawardenapura Hospital Saying that The Hospital It self Running Out of Patients and In to a Position of Begging Patients from The Government Hospitals.
Addressing a Press Briefing In Colombo To Day Dr.Upul Gunasekara The Assistant Secretary Of The Association Said that The Cardio Thoracic Surgeons of the Hospital Last weak appealed to the Ministry Of Health to Send Cardiac Patients who Are in the Waiting List of the Colombo National Hospital with the Money For Jayawardenapura Hospital Due to they are Not having Patients to Perform Surgeries.However The Cardio Thoracic Unit of the Hospital Is Currently Facing A Drug and Equipment Shortage and How they Can Perform the Surgeries under This kind of Circumstance Is a Question He Stressed. The Governing Board of the Hospital Is Engaged In Spending Heavily The Funds Received By The Hospital For Useless Things like Painting A kitchen Instead of Developing the Infrastructure Dr Gunasekara Said.
If the Health Ministry Not Taking Steps to Correct this Irregularities of the Jayawardenapura Hospital Within Two Weeks Time GMOA Will Take A Stern Action against It He further Added.