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....