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Staff shortage & at Trinco hospital The Trincomalee base hospital requires 106 nurses according to 1998 cadre but only 81 nurses are available, a shortage of 25 nurses. Though there should be ten medical laboratory technicians only six are available. There is a shortage of pharmacists, radiographers and ECG technicians. There is also a shortage of medical officers. Though forty medical officers are required only twenty medical officers are available. Daily over 800 patients seek treatment at the OPD and ward admission is nearly one hundred patients. Over six hundred patients attend clinics daily. Laboratory facilities are poor at this hospital, liver function tests, serum creatinine and urine culture tests are not done at the laboratory. Teacher fined Rs. 300 A teacher from Rambukkana was taken into custody by Mawanella police when he was found transporting four buffaloes in a lorry without a permit. The suspect is from Hewadiwela in the locality of Rambukkana. The suspect was produced before Mawanella District Judge P.M.P.S.K. Ratnayake who imposed a fine of Rs. 300 on the suspect. Death fall for burglar One member of a gang of thieves died when he fell off the roof of a shop they were attempting to burgle, City Coroner Edward Ahangama said last week. "I heard noises on the roof and when I investigated, the thieves who were making a hole in the roof began making their escape. One of them attempted to jump," 27-year-old shop assistant Subramaniam Anandan said. He rushed down and found the man Mohamed Safardeen (23) sprawled on the road, dead and he informed the police. A verdict of accidental death was returned. Rent-A-Car Service operator arrested A 'Rent-A-Car' service operator who is also suspected of having connections with illicit emigration to Australia was arrested by the Panadura Crimes and Fraud Bureau last week. The man who is suspected of having sent a number of Australia bound emigrants who are now in police custody 'Down Under' at a fee of Rs. 300,000 also ran a car rental firm. The car rental firm came under investigation on complaints by owners who had leased their cars to him who claimed they had lost ownership by trickery. The suspect was arrested in a hideout in Anurdhapura. The man who went by two aliases is said to have mortgaged the luxury vehicles he leased to third parties. Police said that around 20 luxury vehicles had been fraudulently traded. One luxury coach worth nearly Rs. 4 million had been seized by police. Police were looking for 15 more vehicles in this connection after the first detection Wednesday last week. More arrest were expected. Inspector Jayaneththi, OIC, SCIB of the Panadura police on the supervision of ASP Sanjaya Dharmaratne is investigating with a special police party of the Panadura division. Somawansa leaves JVP leader, Somawansa Amarasinghe left for London yesterday (5) morning at 11.45 by SriLankan Air UL 501. JVP Propaganda Secretary, Wimal Weerawansa, former MPs, Vijitha Herath & Anura Dissanayake had accompanied him to the airport. Amarasinghe held a brief press conference at the Airport Visitors' Lounge before his departure. |
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