Eighteen Thousand Pethidine Vials Are Air Lifted To Ease Severe Shortage Of The Injection

Ministry of Health to day air lifted 18,000 vials of essential pain killer injection "pethidine" from India which is currently not available in government hospitals .Although  this stock is much lesser then the annual requirement it will help to ease the shortage for few months ministry officials said. shortage of pethidine vials have occurred after the medical supplies division removed large number of expired pethidine vials from the government hospitals on end of January.due to the shortage of this injection wounded patients and pregnant mothers are facing difficulties hospital sources said.there was much controversy on the shortage of this injection among doctors and even health minister to day announced in parliament that pethidine shortage will be ended after these air lifted vials are distributed to the hospitals
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Hospital doctors charged that some kind of irregularity had happened when purchasing this injection as the ministry has  imported large number of pethidine vials exceeds the required amount.

Around One Thousand One Hundrad Fifty IDP'S Admitted To Hospitals Due To Infections

Around 1150 In displaced People(IDP'S) who were returned from rebel held areas hospitalized due to the infections they are having Ministry of Health says to day.these people were admitted to five hospitals including trincomalee and vavuniya general hospitals.around 15 small children were treated for their infections at the colombo lady ridgway hospital and they are now recovered fully according to the hospital doctors.
For providing maximum security and treatment facilities to these in displaced persons the resident patients of trincomalee and vavuniya hospitals are to transfered to near by hospitals.Health ministry to day decided to send around 1500 nursing students who are to received the appointments as nurses shortly to the centers where IDP'S are staying.

Sri Lankans In Denmark To Hold A Protest Campaign In Front Of Danish Parliment

Sri Lankans and their friends in denmark are due to hold a protest campaign in front of Danish parliment, falkstinget this friday urging the security and freedom of the In displaced tamil civilians who are still trapped in rebel held areas in the northern sri lanka.these in displaced people should allow to return to the government held areas without any barrier organizers of this protest said.they also requesting to supply essential goods including food,drugs etc, to these people without any shortage.

Health Ministry Recommended A Retired Hospital AO An Extension?

Ministry of Health is recommended the public services commission an extension for a sixty year old chief administrative officer of the south colombo teaching hospital who should be retired from the service last year.according to the policy of the government those who are sixty years old should be retired from the government service.
Due to this irresponsible act of the ministry junior administrative officers are not able to get a chance for applying the post health workers pointed out.health ministry recommended this extension of the recommendation of previous director of the teaching hospital it has been revealed.

Colombo National Hospital Defeated U.K Hospitals On Number Of Neuro Surgeries Performing

National Hospital in colombo take one year to perform the amount of neuro surgeries performed by the high tech equipped U.K hospitals within six years it has been revealed.an english hospital with seven neuro surgeons performed around 700 neuro surgeries a year compared to the 4500 such surgeries performed by the two surgeons of the national hospital under limited resources hospital sources said.The senior consultant neuro surgeon of the hospital dr.sunil perera said that indian hospitals are not performing such an amount of surgeries even they are having high quality technology and enough surgeons.

GMOA Charged Health Ministry On Irregularities While Purchasing Pethidine Injection Vials

There is an illegal dealing while purchasing the pethidine injections as three hundred sixty thousand vials of above injection were removed from the government hospitals after expiring them assistant secretary of the government medical officers association(GMOA) dr.upul gunasekara charged today.addressing a packed press briefing in colombo to day he said that the worth of these removed injection vials are around rs. 1.8 million.due to the removal of these vials there is shortage of this injection at the government hospitals these days.
only two hundred sixty thousand pethidine vials were used at the government hospitals in year 2007 but the health ministry ordered four hundred thousand vials of the injections which is more then the required for the use of 2008 he stressed.purchasing more then the required amount may be the reason behind expiring them before using he pointed out. dr.gunasekera also said that it is sad to see health minister nimal siripala de silva who is also the current chairman of world health organization is offering more drug tenders to the supplier who supplied most number of low quality drugs to hospitals.
He also urged health minister to implement national drug policy to prevent irregularities on purchasing drugs in future

Government To Ship 40 Tonnes Of Rice To IDP'S In Mulativu Tonight

Government is due to ship 40 metric tonnes of food items to night for the use of In displaced people(IDP'S) still trapped in rebel held areas of mulativu district in the north.government officials arrived this decision at a special meeting held this evening