Inside NEWS-PMC Malabe

Dear friends,
This is nothing regarding about my opinion whether I am for or against PMC.But this is something about the honesty of ministry officials and their goons.
Why the PMC ,Malabe is persisting in spite of all these challenges?
That is because the help it is getting from the ministry.Dr.Amal Harsha and Dr.Terrence are supporting this PMC because their daughters are students at the PMC,Malabe.
S B also is for this PMC just because he gets the sweet smell of money.
Let us see what happens......

Scholarship issue.........

Sixteen foreign trips in seven months
Nadira Gunatilleke
(Daily News)

Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena has decided to streamline the procedure of granting scholarships to Ministry staff. A member of the Ministry can go abroad on official scholarships only three times a year, following this directive, a Ministry spokesman said.

According to the spokesman, Minister Sirisena has taken this decision after considering the complaints received from health staff and studying the procedure of granting scholarships implemented by the Ministry.

In one instance a Health Ministry member had gone abroad 16 times on official scholarships during the past seven months.

The spokesman said that Minister had discovered that only a particular group of staff went abroad on scholarships. That group had obtained all the scholarships offered by the Ministry and other affiliated institutions.

According to the new system, one health staffer can go abroad on official scholarships only three times per year. Several Hospital Directors forwarded complaints to the Minister stating that they had not been granted any scholarships by the Ministry or related institutions despite their qualifications and experience, the spokesman said.

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Dear Colleagues,
Seems to be a good bit of work...
Let's see the out come.
During the time of Siripala,his non medical henchman went for Dengue prevention seminars to WHO and one of our medical administrators went to Japan to get the training to repair "Lifts",replacing the engineer.
Unless all the scholarships are advertised well advance and transparency is maintained nothing will be materialized....

Is it back?

Lankadeep reports that the ministry is going to tighten up the regulations of the private medical institution act.

http://epaper.lankadeepa.lk/index.php?option=com_flippingbook&view=book&id=916

Once Mr.Siripala tried to put mediLcal officers even in to jail if they do not get registered under it's council.

While accepting the fact that the individual private practices also should be regulated, We can not agree to a political body( like that of the Private medical institution act) where the medical profession is not given the due prority.

This council of private medical institutional act should not come to the teritoty of SLMC to regulate the medical profession.

Few years back implementation of this act was stopped by the GMOA with the full blessings of the membership(Hope that at least some can remember the history)
There is high chance that the history getting repeated.

Should the GMOA do the duties of the Ministry?-“YES” /”NO”

There had been a debate over this issue for a long time.
Some may say that this should be of the lowest priority since the membership has got many more expectations than this.
But it is quit apparent that all the evil (and very rarely some good also)has come out of this place-“Suvasiripaya”
Everybody has to understand that this government institute is also equally corrupted (if not more than) as all other government institutions.
So, decisions are taken not in a “Doctor friendly manner” ,but based on political and personal agendas.
If the GMOA just remain as a body, which acts on “complaint basis”, will necessitate the use of a multi barrel attack instead of a simple shot gun to defend the profession.
This will then result a lot of public agitation and aggression against the “doctor population.
Hence the GMOA should be an “initiator” and a “promoter” of the steps taken for the betterment of the doctor population and a “monitor” of all the evil processes in hidden cells.
So the answer is “when and if necessary”.

A private message with public significance !

After our last post we received a message

අප වෙනූවෙන්- Gmoa-forus July 7 at 4:00pm
oyala gmoa eke veradi hoyanawada? ape veradi hoyanawada? hail to gmoa

Then we responded

Gmoaguardian Blogteam July 8 at 1:45am

We are searching, what is the fault and how can it be corrected,but not whose fault is that.
We know that there is a problem in the way how the present ex co runs the union.If GMOA ex co is not doing their duty properly,we do not wish to waste time and energy on criticising them.Instead we try to motivate a new set of people with correct pattern of thinking.

What we believe is that just by criticising GMOA ,It causes a negative impact on the young crowd who are willing to join.

"Union weda walate gihilla nikan katha ahaganne mokada?" sort of impression will help only the set of people who are in power at present since they will enjoy a state where there are no competitors.
This is the difference between you and us.

You have got all positive features except "BRAIN"

DO NOT HELP THE PRESENT EX CO BY DISCOURAGING THE JUNIORS.

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What we meant by "BRAIN" in the above conversation was,a proper strategy.
We will keep on helping all,who are interested in GMOA matters by providing a constructive criticism.
If and when the current ex co happens to do some thing good for the profession we will not hesitate to commend on it.

Who is responsible?

The NEWS regarding the GMOA election was not published at the GMOA official web site or their face book page.

The people who are responsible for that are the administers of those sites.
The web based forum called "GMOA FORUS" quiet ignorantly has asked that who is responsible and why are they doing so?

We believe that the hidden motive of this is to put the GMOA EX CO and the GMOA GUARDIAN in to the same group.

We hold no control over the activities of the admins of the GMOA official web site or their face book page. Instead of worrying about their (admins of the GMOA official web site and the face book page) irresponsible behaviour we tried to make you aware via our face book page regarding the upcoming GMOA election.

We would like to stress the fact the ordinary membership who read us regularly will understand that who we are(gmoa guardian-THE THIRD PARTY)

Provincial Politics (Trade union) and power sharing

For a long time GMOA branch unions have been asking for a provincial representation at the ex co.
The idea that the power is concentrated to the centre has led to this request. According to the supporters of the said argument, the institutional representation at the general committee is not sufficient for proper representation of the peripheral membership. Those who are in the centre also do not seem to be willing for power sharing.
Our opinion lies in a different plane.

Even the power that the general committee already posses has never been utilized for years, even at times when the ex co needs to be reminded of its duty.
Even those who are in the ex co (from “non Colombo” areas) also have never been able to spear head the ex co or contribute sufficiently to meet the demand of the periphery.
Decentralization of the power also has got its inherent pros and cons.
At the same time the arguments for restructuring of the GMOA branch union net work and a proper mechanism of power sharing also seem to be the need of the day when unity of the membership is concerned.

Let’s try to understand what others say!

Let wisdom prevail on the ex co/membership.