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I'll develop hospital with available funds - Wayamba Health Minister

by Chilaw special correspondent

"I'll take steps to provide the required specialist doctors and nurses at the Chilaw Base hospital and according to the funds available, I'll complete at least seventy percent of shortcomings there," said Wayamba Provincial Council Health Minister H. M. M. Nawavi.

He was speaking at a discussion under the auspices of the "Chilaw Saukya Sanrakshana Padanama" (Health Maintenance Foundation) chaired by Bingiriye Siri Guneratne Parivenadhipathy Halawatha Sumanasiri thera and held at the Minister's official residence, Puttalam.

The Provincial Council Minister added that he had informed the hospital DMO to submit the shortcomings prevailing at the Chilaw Base hospital before December 15, 2002. The funds allocated for the year 2001, have been already utilised for development work at this hospital. "When we receive funds, the work on the construction of buildings will begin in 2003," he said.

S. M. Dharmadasa, President, Chilaw Hospital Maintenance Foundation said for smooth running of medical facilities obtained at the hospital, there should be at least two specialist doctors of each discipline. "The drugs necessary are not available at the hospital. Dental specialists are few. In this regard, the medical superintendent had been informed. The hospital does not have the essential equipment. About four hundred patients attended the clinics daily. The patients were queuing up for the clinics from 3 a.m., and they returned home about 3 or 4 in the evening. The clinics should start at least by 8.00 a.m. If this is done, the public will receive a satisfactory service," Mr. Dharmadasa said.

"On some days, if some specialist doctors are not present, the patients had to travel to distant hospitals like Ragama.

If the buildings that are being constructed at the hospital were completed, the doctors could have resided at the hospital itself. At present, the doctors reside in private houses.

W. R. Deshapriya, President, "Welanda Sangamaya" (Traders' society) said: "The essential drugs needed for patients were not there at the hospital. At least seventy per cent of drugs necessary are not available at the moment. The buildings at the hospital were developed by the Traders' Society. The society expects to do more for the progress of the hospital. The facilities obtained at the base hospital were not adequate."

Rohitha Warnakulasuriya, Secretary, Puttalam district Christian organisation, P. C. Hettiarachchi, Secretary, Arts Society, Chilaw and Gnanarathna Adhikari, Secretary, Arachchikattuwa Traders' Society also spoke.

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