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Discipline vital for success - Healthcare Minister

Health Care and Nutrition Minister Nimal Siripala De Silva observed that discipline was a sine qua non for success in the development sphere.However it is a matter for regret that those who claim to be educated are wanting in discipline.

"Our Security Forces are fighting the terrorists to safeguard the territorial integrity and suffer injuries and when they try to uphold discipline. But some get injured due to lack of discipline.", Minister De Silva said.

He was addressing the first anniversary celebration of the Trauma Secretariat of the Healthcare and Nutrition Ministry held at the Galadari Hotel, Colombo on Wednesday.

He said the patient care service of the Peradeniya Teaching Hospital has been on hold for almost two weeks due to lack of discipline among nurses and doctors. "They fight for a ten by ten room and it cannot be divided to two parts because it is too small. If the room is reserved for doctors the nurses go on strike on the following day and the doctors do the same if it is given to nurses".

"Since both parties did not want to compromise, as the Minister I have to stand in the middle and watch which reminds me of the popular Sinhala idiom `Maga hitiyoth tho nasi, gedara giyoth ambu nasi'(If you do not go home and stop on your way, you will be killed, if you go home, your wife will be killed). Both parties fight like cats and dogs for a ten by ten room and now the matter is in courts.", the Minister pointed out.

Their discipline can be measured by their acts such as removing the oxygen supply of dying patients and hiding essential drugs. "When I try to discipline the health staff some people blame me and when the nurses and doctors go for each other I get blamed again. Now I have to question what I should do as the Healthcare and Nutrition Minister", the Minister stated.

The lack of radiologists also shows the level of discipline we have in the academic side of the health sector. All the other colleges hold examinations twice a year, but, when it comes to the institute which produces radiologists, it holds examinations only once a year, resulting in a long waiting list to enter this institute and get the required qualifications while the innocent patients suffer without adequate number of radiologists. This is being done purposely in order to maintain the demand for radiologists, the Minister stressed.

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