Health Ministry To Set Up A Separate Hospital For Adults?

Ministry Of Health is considering to set up a separate Hospital for Adult Patients Acting Health Minister Mahinda Amaraweera has said today.Addressing a Media Seminar on "Oral Health"held at the Health Education Bureau in Colombo he said that the Ministry will either set up a separate Government Hospital for Adults or providing the facilities for  Adult Patients in Government Hospitals for  getting treatment without waiting in queues.

Acting Health Minister made these remarks after a group of Dental Doctors requesting the Minister to set up a separate Hospital for the convenience of Adult Patients.

98 Percent of Sri Lankan Adults Over 60 Years Suffering From Gum Diseases

According to the National Oral Health Survey carried out by the Health Ministry 98 percent of Sri Lankan adults over 60 years of age are found as suffering from  Gum diseases(Periodontal) which can cause the loosing of teeth.Trincomalee and  Jaffna Districts are identified as  worst affected Districts of poor oral health among Adults and the percentage of Gum diseases among  Adults in these areas is 100 percent.

Due to this situation most of these adults cannot feel the taste of food after they loose their teeth according to the Dental Doctors.

Due to  lack of awareness on Oral Health,not having someone to accompany them to the Hospitals,due to the need to wait in a Queues to getting treatment are the reasons behind Adults over 60 years of age refrain from going to a Government Hospital for Dental check up Dr.F.R.C Kanthi has said today.As this years world Oral Health Day's theme is "curable Mouth for Adulthood" it is the duty of every person to accompany the adults to a dental check up at least once a year she further added.

New Salary Increase For Judges

A motion presented to the Parliament today  on  increasing  the Salaries  of  Judges passed unanimously.The new salary increase will implement with the effect from 01st of January next year.

According to the motion the new Salary of the Chief Justice will be Rs.71,500,Salaries of Supreme Court Judges and the Chairman of Appeal Court will Rs.65,000 and the Appeal Court Judges Salary is Rs.63,500.

Former LTTE Child Soldier And Eastern Provincial Chief Minister Pillayan Wants His Former Rebel Leader Karuna To Apologize On Killing Policemen

The Chief Minister of the Eastern Province and former LTTE member turned politician Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan alias Pillayan today told in front of the Lessons Learn t and Reconciliation Commission that his former colleague and the vice president of the Ruling Sri Lanka Freedom Party Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan alias Karuna should apologize from the families of the 600 Policemen who were massacred in the Eastern Province by the LTTE in 1990.

Pillayan made these remarks when he was asked by the Commission on whether he need to apologize the Families of those Policemen massacred as his group was involved in the attack.Pillayan joined LTTE as a Child Soldier when he was 16 years old and worked under Karuna in the Eastern wing of the LTTE which carried out most of the deadly attacks against the civilians.Karuna,Pillayan and most of the LTTE's Eastern Command later quilted from LTTE and joined the government a year ago.

Chief Government Whip Revealed The Worth Of Gold Recovered From LTTE

Chief Government Whip Dinesh Gunawardena today said in Parliament that the value of  Gold recovered from Wanni District of Northern Sri Lanka during the final phase of  war against  LTTE is Rs.490 Million.

Responding to a question raised by the Opposition MP Dayasiri Jayasekera Minister Gunawardena has said that the recovered amount of Gold is weighing 110 Kilo Grammes and a special legal procedure is adapted to handover  Gold to  relevant authorities for further investigations.

Main Opposition United National Party(UNP) several times raised the question regarding recovered Gold from LTTE saying that the government should reveal the Public on this.

80 Percent Of The Chidren In Globe And 30 Percent Of Sri Lankan Children Are Having Dental Irregularities

It has been revealed that while 80 percent of children throughout the globe are having some kind of Dental irregularity only 30 percent of Sri Lankan children are having Dental Irregularities.

According to the latest Oral Health survey carried out by the Ministry of Health 30 percent of the Chidren who are more than 3 years are found as having some kind of Dental Irregularity.

However a team of Dental Experts from Australia who were here few days ago said that they cannot accept Sri Lankan results on Dental Irregularities among Children as 80 percent of the Children globally having some kind of Dental Irregularity.According to them the research on the children throughout the world who are having these irregularities was conducted by them.Sri Lanka's most recent health survey was conducted  in the year 2003 and the next survey is scheduled to be held in 2013.

President Inspected The Re- Laid RailWay Track In Jaffna-Colombo Rail Track

President Mahinda Rajapaksha inspected the re laid Railway Track of Jaffna- Colombo Rail Track from the laying site in Omanthai  in Northern Sri Lanka this evening which was destroyed few decades ago due to the war between LTTE Rebels and Government forces.