(Lanka-e-News -16.April.2016, 8.45PM) Consequent upon the prolonged New Year holidays this year , even the essential services of the country were crippled . Because of this , the services in hospitals too ground to a halt imperilling the lives of patients, based on reports reaching Lanka e news.
The plight of the patients was so pitiful at the Colombo General hospital , the specialised post surgical treatment to patients who underwent surgery was totally paralysed. In one ward , for three consecutive days, the specialist had gone missing creating a most disgusting and dangerous situation for the patients.
According to a report received by Lanka e news, in the ward of this specialist , the urinary tract of a patient who underwent surgery to his stomach , had been cut inadvertently by the doctors resulting in urine flowing out into the internal parts of the body. This has necessitated emergency attention , and the advice of the specialist became vital , but lo and behold ! , the specialist was nowhere to be found for the last three days . Even today , the second rung doctors of the ward had been unable to trace him.
It is paramount that a specialist of a ward is available at any time to give advice , and is bound to abide by that requirement. What was even more rudely shocking was , this perilous situation endangering lives of patients was not confined to that missing specialist’s ward alone.
Apparently these specialists in the hospital have not only specialised in the medical field but have also specialised in doing the vanishing trick at the time they are most needed by the bedside of the patient for which they are paid.
By now , it is a well and widely known fact that the doctors of Sri Lanka are a special ruthless callous breed. Though they have taken the sacred oath of Hippocrates to serve the people they behave worse than the worst of hypocrites. Their gaze is fixed only on selfish gains and serving themselves. This was well illustrated when the so called GMOA (Government Medical Officers Association) staged a strike earlier on putting the lives of the patients in grave jeopardy because they were not issued duty free permits for vehicles.
These are doctors who had proved without an iota of shame that they are a breed even below that of animals. It is a common saying , ‘ a man is a wolf to man.’ Truly speaking this is a libel on the wolf for wolves are kind to each other unlike man. At least these doctors even if they are wolves in human clothing must learn to inculcate the qualities of the wolf to show kindness to their own kind-humans . After all they have become doctors out of public funding . At least they must learn to be grateful to the public even if they have no love for the patients and their profession, which humane love they have of course most bestially subordinated to their inordinate greed for filthy lucre.
Unbelievably , owing to the long holidays, even the daily production of newspapers had been suspended for 3 days. Such stoppage of news paper production does not occur in any country.
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This type of behavior is not confined only to the medical profession who also come from the same society as the rest of the people in different professions including the politicians and the leaders of the country.. It is something in the behavior of the Sri Lankan society..May it is the lack of discipline or plain arrogance when once people get the power.
-- by Wimal Elleppla on 2016-04-18
The holiday season is a very busy time for businesses, and as most SL doctors are now running car sales as a side-line, it is natural that they focus on their business rather than their patients.
It is this type of entrepreneurial spirit that we need to celebrate in this wonderful country of ours.
-- by Chamira Athauda on 2016-04-19