The Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA) today said they do not view taking over the Neville Fernando Hospital under the Government’s purview as a solution to the issue of South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine (SAITM).
Addressing a media briefing Dr. Samantha Ananda, the Media Spokesman of the GMOA stated thatthe tri-party agreement signed to hand over the Neville Fernando Hospital to the Government, was a sublease of the hospital and not a complete hand over to the government.
He queried regarding the standards of the Neville Fernando hospital of becoming a Teaching Hospital.
“When a hospital is not even have facilities of that of a Base Hospital how can they automatically pass off as a Teaching Hospital with all the short-comings”, he said.
Public Security Minister Ananda Wijepala told Parliament today that the suspect in the rape of a lady doctor at the Anuradhapura teaching hospital has been identified as an army deserter and he will be apprehended shortly.
Police have arrested the suspect connected to the sexual assault on a female doctor at the Anuradhapura Teaching Hospital today morning in Galnewa.
The Dutch Public Prosecutor suspects two companies of paying bribes in the construction of hospitals in Sri Lanka, according to an investigation by FD, the Dutch financial newspaper.
The Minister of Power, Kumara Jayakody, stated that in the future, internationally funded projects, such as power projects, will only be carried out through government-to-government (G2G) agreements and competitive procurement.
The Government today tabled in the House the Report of the Commission to Inquiry into the Establishment and Maintenance of Unlawful Places of Detention and Torture Chambers in the Batalanda Housing Scheme.
Israel, a major player in the global diamond and jewellery trade, has invited Sri Lankan gem and jewellery businessmen and designers to collaborate with Israeli diamond traders.
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