Consultants highlight difficulties

Harshini Perera and Ishara Mudugamuwa

The Kandy Hospital Consultants Association has written to Health Ministry Secretary Dr. Athula Kahandaliyanage, stating the difficulties in providing a efficient service towards patients and ensuring adequate teaching and training facilities for medical undergraduates and postgraduates.

They also state that this state of affairs is due to the increased number of students in clinical groups where basic facilities available have not been improved for the last three decades.

As a result medical education at the Peradeniya has drastically deteriorated over the Past few years.

They further state that certain issues on the Paramedical degree should also be resolved and request the Secretary to pay a visit and assess the environment for studies at the Teaching Hospital, Kandy.

The Government Medical Officers' Association, (GMOA) has also written to the President in this regard.