Few days back our face book page demonstrated an image, as an eye opener.As most of you have already seen, it was from one of the links (dedicated for political gossips)in infolanka web site. It was an image developed based on a vial containing foreign material, in order to attack the minister of Health and then to the present government.
It raised mixed reactions from the readers, when they saw this image.
Some were with the view that we as a profession should go an extra mile to chase this minister away.
Some had the view that this is a part of the “double game” of the GMOA.
Any way the basic idea of initiating a dialogue was successful.
We hope that it is not forgotten to many of us that the tradition of revealing health related issues including low quality drugs specially those containing waste substances was initiated by one of the assistant secretaries of GMOA (Dr.Upul Gunasekara.)
That propaganda later fueled by many others has now gone to the extent of black listing some Indian drug companies! .This shows the power of information and the extent a dialog can shape up the final outcome.
There is no doubt that the elimination of the present minister will benefit the whole health system, but it will not eradicate all the problems faced by our membership.As the authors of this blog we share a different view on finding sustainable solutions to our professional issues ranging from transfer matters, replacements, grade promotion and unacceptable working environment to salary restructuring
They need much more intellectual dialogue and consensus within the profession. Hence the prime duty of the EX Co of the GMOA should be to mediate this in order to develop and strengthen our own system.
If not even a new minister comes our profession will be still vulnerable to his dirty tactics!
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