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06/12/2011
GMOA rallies doctors against SLMC takeover
The Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA) today warned that the decision to convert the Sri Lanka Medical Council (SLMC) to a public enterprise would cripple Sri Lanka’s health sector and changes to the SLMC if any should only be made with the approval of the medical profession.
GMOA Secretary Dr. Chandika Epitakaduwa in a letter to all members of the SLMC, Sri Lanka Medical Association (SLMA), Sri Lanka Dental Association (SLDA), all Medical faculties and other stakeholders of the medical profession and requested them to reach a consensus on the issue to safeguard the medical profession. Medical professionals held discussions today to decide their stand on the matter.
“The government had taken a decision to categorise the SLMC as a public enterprise and to appoint a controversial personality as SLMC president. It is understandable that there is a hidden agenda behind this fishy move.
The SLMC has been functioning independently since its inception and no outsider will interfere with it. However in the recent past there were unacceptable incidents against its officials,” Dr. Epitakaduwa said. (Olindhi Jayasundere)
http://www.dailymirror.lk/news/15257-gmoa-rallies-doctors-against-slmc-takeover.html
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GMOA members threaten to quit SLMC
November 15, 2011, 10:03 pm
By Don Asoka Wijwewardena
Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA) yesterday warned the government that their Association representing about 14,000 doctors would be compelled to resign from Sri Lanka Medical Council (SLMC)membership if the SLMC took action to register 70 RMPs who had presented bogus medical certificates. It was a flagrant violation of the provisions of the Sri Lanka Medical Ordinance slot.
GMOA General Secretary Dr.Chandika Epitakaduwa said an emergency General Committee meeting scheduled for November 17 would take a final decision on the issue. The RMPs/ AMPs had been detailed in most rural district hospitals to treat minor ailments. For serious cases they were required to hand them over to qualified M.B.B.S. doctors.
The G.M.O.A. was constrained to take some painful decisions, because 70 AMPs/RMPs had been asking the SLMC to recognize their medical certificates. They had claimed that they completed three –year training in General Medicine in St.Petersburg Medical School in Russia. But these AMPs on the pretext of studying medicine three years at St. Petersburg Medical School had never gone to Russia and some had gone to Russia for two months.
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By Nirmala Kannangara
The Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) has sought Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena’s intervention to find schools for the children whose parents are working in the peripheries.
Dr. Saman Abeywardena of the GMOA told The Sunday Leader that six children whose parents are working in periphery hospitals are waiting to get schools in Colombo although 11 months have elapsed in the year.
“The general procedure is to send letters to the Education Ministry Secretary through the Health Ministry Secretary and they would be forwarded to the relevant school principals. Although the same procedure was followed in 2010 for 2011 school entrants, principals of most schools have not admitted these children. As a result children whose parents are working in the North and East and many other periphery hospitals are still waiting for schools although almost one year has passed,” said Dr. Abeywardena.
Meanwhile, the GMOA on behalf of the doctor parents had met Education Minister Bandula Gunawardena on November 1. “When we met the Educatioin Minister he gave an assurance that he will speak to his officials but we are still waiting to get a favorable response. These doctors are working in remote areas but the Education Ministry has failed to provide schools for their children,” claimed Dr. Abeywardena.
http://www.thesundayleader.lk/2011/11/13/gmoa-seeks-health-ministry-intervention/
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Little chance of Lanka becoming knowledge hub: FUTA .
Friday, 11 November 2011 21:00
Local universities are facing a brain drain and will not be able to achieve the government’s goal of turning Sri Lanka into a South Asian knowledge hub as the academic staff has not received their wage increments promised by the government, the Federation of University Teachers Association (FUTA) said today.
FUTA spokesman Mahin Mendis said only 25 per cent of the academic staff in local universities were doctoral degree holders and that if the universities were to retain the PhD holders the government should ensure that they received the increments owed to them.
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09/11/2011
Anatomy of a case of jealousy, cold-blooded murder and reprisals
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