GMOA

We were in Batticaloa on 17 th…..

admin — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:35:31 +0000

Representatives of GMOA ex co were at TH Batticaloa on last Friday.Another sucessful branch union meeting was held with a satisfactory participation of the membership.

Reaching every corner of the land…..

admin — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:44:59 +0000

Members in every nook and corner of the country are no more neglected or cornered.Research worksop of Kalmunai region will be held in Nindavur District Hospital on 16 th Feb.This may be the first time in the history when GMOA officers from Colombo are visiting Kalmunai area.

A Grade Medical Officers’ meeting

admin — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:36:14 +0000

A meeting to bring their proposals to the medical service minute amendments, the grade medical officers of the GMOA are meeting tomorrow at 9 am at the OPA auditorium.All grade medical officers interested are welcome for this event.

Step by step to achieve the goal……

admin — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:20:30 +0000

GMOA membership has started to show a great interest in cultivating “a research culture” within the medical profession and to make the recently implemented research allowance a reality.The 3 rd successful workshop of this kind was conducted at wathupitiwala hospital today.The participation was commendable.

New circular to grant study leave for DFM online…

admin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:38:50 +0000

A new circular was issued in order to provide 98 days duty leave (for attending clinical sessions )and 14 days study leave ( before the exam) for those following DFM online course as a result of GMOA intervention.Visit ..downloads for the circular….

Second research workshop conducted at GH Matara

admin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:14:27 +0000

Second successful workshop conducted on 1 st Feb at Matara General Hospital with the participation of over 130 medical officers.At the end of the workshop a computer was donated for the benifit of the membership at GH Matara.

Colombo district hospitals are on strike today!

admin — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:23:08 +0000

Hospitals governed by the western province provincial council and situated within the colombo district are on strick today.
This is in order to protest.
1.Unacceptable behaviour of one of the provincial council council member by intimidating a public health medical officer at Hanwella.
2.Nonpayment of telecom bills of doctors.

Hospital functions will affect from 8 am to 4 pm .

Branch Union Meeting at NHSL

admin — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:29:33 +0000

Gmoa executive committee participated at the branch union meeting conducted at the NHSL 520 canteen today,where many members had the chance to get their quaries clarified from the President GMOA.Similar branch union discussions will be conducted island wide in the near future.

Research workshop at LRH

admin — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:15:29 +0000

With the view of promoting research and facilitating the members to claim the newly introduced research allowance the 1 st of a series of workshops was conducted at LRH on 23 rd January with the participation of more than 100 medical officers.

To arrange the next workshop at your branch contact Dr Rajeev at the GMOA office.

GMOA Threatens to withdraw from transfer boards at the Ministry

admin — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:54:28 +0000

Ministry higher officials seems to be much more interested in offering irregular transfers to their favourtits than maintaing a transparent and an acceptable transfer scheme.In response to refusal to revert an irregular transfer by the ministry,GMOA Threated to withdraw from transfer boards at the Ministry of health.This is just to show that the gmoa is vigilant on these issues.Members should not hold the openion that withdrawal of GMOA will open more room for further irregularities at the transfer boards as it had been the norm in the past..We promise to maintain the achieved transparency and good governance at the transfer boards, further.