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April salaries early Cabinet Secretary N. V. K. K. Weragoda has informed the Secretary to the Treasury Charitha Ratwatte to see that the decision taken at the meeting of the Ministerial Sub Committee on February 24 to pay the April salaries and festival advance of public servants before March 30 is implemented. The office of the government spokesman said yesterday. Accordingly, General Treasury sources said that salaries for the months of March and April, and the festival advance will be paid during the month of March. The Treasury has already taken steps to pay the salaries and to release funds required to the relevant Ministries, Departments and Corporations. The Government requests officers responsible for the payment of salaries to inform the Secretary to the Treasury if there are any shortcomings in this regard. Movement to protect indigenous medicine The Ayurvedaya Rekaganeeme Sanvidhanaya, (Organization for the Protection of Ayurvedaya), a new Organization, comprising members of the All Island Health Services Association, the Government Ayurvedic Medical Practitioners' Association,the Intern Ayurvedic Medical Practitioners' Association, the Unemployed Ayurvedic Graduates Association, the Ayurvedic Specialists' Association and the Colombo University Indigenous Medical Faculty Students' Working Committee, has convened a media conference at Nippon Hotel, Colombo 02, today at 11.00 a.m. The media conference is to explain the importance of protecting indigenous medicine and national culture which are the prime objectives of the Organisation, a media announcement by the conveners said. Help save little boy's life Master Mohamed Anis (5) of Thalluwa, Thuththirigama, Kurunegala is suffering from congenital Acyhaolic heart disease. He needs Cardiac Catheterization followed by surgical correction of coarctation to save his life, according to Dr. K. P. Suresh Kumar, Senior Consultant and Interventional Cardiologist. The surgery to be done at Malar Hospital, Chennai, India is estimated to cost Rs. 275,000. Anis's father Mohamed Amin says the President's Fund has agreed to release Rs. 160,000 towards meeting this expenditure. He says he is unable to find the balance money due to his present economic plight and requests philanthropists and the public to assist his child's cause by sending whatever financial contributions possible without delay. All contributions should be remitted to account number 207-100414-4 at the People's Bank, Ginthupitiya (Colombo 13) branch. |
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