|
|
|
 |
 |
 |
| Tuesday, 30 November 2004 |
 |
|
 |
News | |
| News Business Features Editorial Security Politics World Letters Sports Obituaries
|
by Rajmi Manatunga The Government has decided to allocate more funds to improve infrastructure, building facilities and provide medical equipment to the healthcare sector in the year 2005, Healthcare and Nutrition Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva said. Addressing a ceremony to mark the recruitment of 464 new attendants to the health service the Minister said that the UPFA government will take all necessary steps to effect a qualitative difference in the country's healthcare sector. "We have already started filling the existing vacancies for doctors, nurses, paramedics and attendants in hospitals islandwide and giving them a standard training. It has also been decided to absorb all substitute employees of the Health Services Department to the permanent cadre," the Minister said. The recruitment of attendants to government hospitals came to a halt several years ago owing to disagreements between health service unions on the training and uniforms of certain fields of work. According to the Ministry it is after a lapse of seven years that attendants were trained and recruited to the healthcare sector. Minister de Silva further said that it was unfair for health service unions to take up trade union action for trivial reasons while having a number of privileges over their other colleagues in the government service. "It is the responsibility of all of us to make the heath service more respectable," he added. |
|
News | Business | Features
| Editorial | Security
Produced by Lake House |
