UN Office In Colombo Filed A Petition Against Arresting UN Staff Members

A Fundamental Rights Petition was filed in the Supreme Court today by the United Nations Office in Colombo over the alleged arrest and detention of the two of UN local Staff Members by the Government Forces.UN Staffers are seeking equaly protection of the law and Freedom from torture.

The Accused Of Acid Throwing Case In Sydney Refused Bail

The Man who was arrested by the Australian Police over the Acid Attack on two Sri Lankan students was refused bail and remanded till 10th of September by the Paramatta Local Court in Sydney Yesterday.

The Accused Amala Thepan Srikanthraja was charged in to two accounts with inflicting body harm and intent to murder was proved of involved in the Acid Attack on last May by throwing Sodium Hydroxide over two Sri Lankan Students in Sydney.The two students are having Burn injuries and they are recovering according to the Australian Police.DNA Tests carriedout also proved the involvement of the accused in to the incident.

Sri Lankan Swine Flu Tally Reached Fourty.

The total number of Swine Flu Patients reported from Sri Lanka risen to 40 now as another Three New Swine Flu Patients were reported yesterday who are returned from Australia and the Dubai.

Ninety Percent of Swine Flu Patients reported so far are Sri Lankans who returned from Australia.Others were returned from Canada,United Kingdom , USA and from Philiphenes.Currently there Seven Swine Flu Patients getting treatment at the Fever Hospital.

Health Ministry To Transfer 50 Cancer Hospital Nurses Who Restricted Chemo Therapy Treatment

Ministry of Health in a stunning move decided to transfer some 50 Nurses of the Maharagama Cancer Hospital who are launched an action to restrict Chemo Therapy treatment for Cancer Patients citing Safety Problems.These Nurses are replaced by 50 New Nurses who are already recruited to the Cancer Hospital today.

According to the Director General Of Health Services Dr.Ajith Mendis These Nurses who are subjected to transfer are serving more than four years at the Cancer Hospital and they are transfer according to the State Employees Transfer System.Some of these Nurses serving around nine years at the Hospital he stressed.

Meanwhile Protesting against the Ministry Decision The Government Nursing Officers Associattion says transfering Senior Nurses of the Cancer Hospital will lead to breakingdown of Patients Care of the Hospital.Nursing Staff of the Cancer Hospital restricted the Chemo Therapy treatment from 500 Patients to 300 since last weak .They said the provided Safety Equipments not up to standard to deliver Quality treatment for the Patients.

The Scheduled One Day Token Strike Of Medical Proffessionals Suspended

The One Day Island Wide Token Strike scheduled to be launch tomorrow by the Professions Supplementary To Medicine(PSM) of Government Hospitals was suspended following the results of the Discussion held this Evening between the Health Ministry Officials and the PSM union.

The PSM Professionals compromising The Government Pharmacists,Radiographers,Medical Laboratory Technologists,Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapists decided to launch an Island Wide Token Strike tomorrow over Six of their Service Demands.

Sri Lanka Canceled 200 Million Dollars Worth Of Ammunitions After The War

Sri Lanka canceled 200 Million Dollars worth purchase of Ammunition from Pakistan and China after the end of it's war with LTTE Terrorists New Chief Of Defence Staff and former Army Commander General Sarath Fonseka says today.

The Order would have been enough Ammunition to fire guns and heavy weapons at the rate seen during the climax of the War which ended on 18th of May he stressed.He made these remarks at his Swearing-in Ceremony as the New Chief of Defence Staff today.

General Fonseka also said that around 800 members of the breakaway Tiger Group joined the Armed Forces.

Four Essential Drugs Prescribing For Kidney Transplant Patients Are Out Of Stock

The lives of Around One Thousand Kidney Transplant Patients in the Island are in danger as Four Essential Drugs prescribing for them are out of stock at All the Government Hospitals these days.The Drugs "Cyclosporine", "Sepasti"Erithroprotien and Tractotoklamus" are out of stock in the Hospitals since two weeks according to the Government Hospital Sources.

Out of One Thousand Kidney Transplant Patients in the Island Eight Hundred Patients are getting treatment from the Nephrology Kidney Transplant Unit of Kandy General Hospital in the Hill Country.Six Hundred Fifty of these Patients are receiving the Drug "Cyclosporine" and Seven Hundred Eighty receiving "Sepasti" according to the Doctors.Plus these Drugs these patients receiving the Drugs "Erithroprotien" and "Tracktotoklamus".

These Out Of Stock Drugs are not available in the Medical Supplies Division too and the Major Hospitals issuing these Drugs The Colombo National,Kandy General and Sri Jayawardenapura Hospitals.These Drugs are very Expensive in the Private Sector and One Patient need to spend more then Eighty Thousand Rupees monthly for purchasing these Drugs.The Kandy Kidney Patients Safety Fund headed by the Two Chief Incumbents of the Malwathu and Asgiriya Chapters made a written request to the President Mahinda Rajapaksha few days back to make an arrangements to import these Drugs soon as Possible for the use of these Kidney Patients.