Douglas unhappy with Jaffna Hospital maintenance

Traditional Industries and Small Enterprise Development Minister Douglas Devananda urged the authorities to keep the Jaffna Teaching Hospital premises clean.

The minister who visited the Jaffna Teaching Hospital recently, examined the hospital and had a discussion with the hospital staff including the Medical Superintended regarding the upkeep of the premises.

Devananda said the entire premises including wards were unsatisfactorily maintained and dirty, and even the healthy who visit the hospital, would fall sick as the premises was unhygienic.

The minister instructed hospital authorities to immediately to clean the entire premises.

He also instructed hospital authorities to obtain assistance from the Jaffna Municipal Council to clean the premises which had been long neglected and needed immediate attention.

Inquiring about disunity that had cropped up among some medical practitioners, Devananda urged the hospital staff to work as one for the development of the hospital and said it was only then they could serve the needy.

The minister also instructed the officer - in - charge of the Jaffna Police Station to inquire into the attack on the residence of a cancer specialist.

He said he and the Health Ministry were closely monitoring the development work carried out at the hospital.