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| Friday, 5 December 2003 |
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GMOA seeks President's intervention The Government Medical Officers Association has sought President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga's intervention to ensure that the Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike Memorial Children's Hospital to be set up at Peradeniya is not run on the lines of Sri Jayawardanapura Hospital, in Kotte which is a fee levying hospital. Issuing a Media release in this connection, the GMOA states: "The hospital to be set up at Peradeniya was the brainchild of the late Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike. This truly shows her love for the children of our nation. We of the GMOA who are always vigilant about the developments in the health sector specially when it is going to affect the poor public of this country are deeply disturbed because we are made to understand that the above hospital once set up has been year marked to be managed on the lines of Sri Jayawardanapura Hospital, Kotte which is a fee levying hospital. It is a well-known fact that there are irregularities in the management of this hospital and is overstaffed and therefore this hospital charges exorbitant fees from patients making it inaccessible to the general public. If an exclusive children's hospital is set up in Peradeniya, it will be of immense benefit for the millions of children not only in and around the Central Province, but also the children in the whole island as there is only one hospital in the island for children at the moment - The Lady Ridgeway Children's Hospital in Colombo which too has a unit built recently on the advice of Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike. The new hospital built in the name of Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike will be a lasting tribute to her. Therefore, every effort must be made to see that it is run as any other General Hospital without inconveniencing the poor if it is to be a tribute to the great lady who always stood for the welfare of the downtrodden. Therefore, we appeal to Her Excellency the President to take up this cause and see that justice be done to the poor people of this country, the release adds. |
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