Aim to reduce shortage of qualified nurses providing foreign jobs
too - Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva
A.W. GUNAWARDHANA, Matara Central correspondent
MATARA: Recruitment of doctors is based on needs, they must be
prepared to serve in North and East too. There is a dearth of X-Ray
technicians too, a batch of 200 is now being trained.
Action has now been taken to eliminate the shortage of skilled
nurses, any excess of our requirements will be provided with foreign
assignments, said HealthCare and Nutrition Minister Nimal Siripala de
Silva.
He was addressing at the presentation of a CT scanner worth Rs. 60
million to the General Hospital, Matara.
The Minister said terrorism in Health Institutions must be stopped.
Terrorism in Parliament is now an ugly site. No terrorism should prevail
in hospitals. Certain officers of this hospital are in the habit of
altering their time of departure from 11.30 to 17.30 on the day after.
He said it is to avoid those irregularities that the method of
finger-printing was introduced. I am appealing to all politicians to be
vigilant over the affairs of this hospital. It is my intention to
develop this hospital to be a model one.
The Minister said there is no shortage of consultants and other
physicians in this hospital. In future appointments of doctors will be
done on the basis of vacancies prevailing in affected areas.
Appointments will soon be given to 15,000 nurses. Then the question
of payment of OT will not arise. Health workers - specially Trade
Unionists, must not think only of their gains.
Cultural Affairs Minister Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena said, when I was
the Chief Minister Southern Provincial Council there was an agitation
for the take over of this hospital by the Central Government.
If it is not taken over by the Central Government - we would not have
got a CT scanner. This scanner will serve the people in distant areas
like Hambantota and Monaragala too.
Minister of Special Projects Mahinda Wijesekara, Minister of Media
Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena and several others also spoke. |
