GMOA Prevented a Docs Strike In Vavuniya Hospital

Government Medical Officers Association(GMOA) of sri lanka to day prevented a possible strike action of the doctors attached to the vavuniya general hospital in the northern sri lanka citing the present conflict situation prevailing there.all fifty doctors in the hospital earlier planned to stage a walkout opposing the administration of the hospital director but reduced that action to a one hour protest campaign after GMOA intervened to the scene.According to the assistant secretery of the GMOA dr.upul gunasekera his union held discussions with the docs there this morning and urged them to prevent any inconveniences to the people in the area.At present large number of civilian and forces casualties are dispatch to the vavuniya hospital.

UN Under Secretary General Urged LTTE To Refrain From Shooting Civilians

The visiting under secretary general of the united nations sir john holmes urged LTTE to avoid civilian casualties and allow civilians to move into safer areas.Speaking at colombo this morning he says that the LTTE should refrain from shooting on civilians.sir holmes is in colombo on an invitation from the sri lankan foreign minister rohitha bogollagama. he also met defense secretary gotabaya rajapaksha at his ministry.

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.