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Ousting govt. only way to solve country’s problems – Women for Rights
By Saman Indrajith
The JVP-led Women for Rights (WfR), on Saturday, asked people how many more patients would have to die in hospitals for them to realise that the only way to resolve the prevailing crisis in the country’s health sector was to oust the incumbent regime.
Addressing the media at the JVP head office, the Chairperson of WfR, Saroja Savithri Paulraj, said the government, while allocating around 200 billion rupees for the health sector, set aside a thousand times more funds from the national budget to ensure that politicians lived in luxury. “The allocation for the health sector is only a meagre sum in comparison to the amount of funds allocated for the maintenance of the President, his staff, and offices.
The ministers did not listen to the health experts’ warnings that the country’s health sector is in danger and more funds should be allocated from the budget. Instead, they got their health insurance enhanced. The media reported on Friday that 971,888 women and children suffered from malnutrition. Doctors are leaving the country because this is fast becoming a place where they cannot practise their profession. In the meantime, crooks in the health sector have allowed their crony companies to fleece the public. The State Pharmaceutical Corporation has recently purchased inhalers overpaying Rs 90 million. It could have bought an inhaler at Rs 15, but spent as much as Rs 705 thereon.
They line up their pockets in such deals. The end result is either we do not have medicine or have substandard medicine. That is the reason for the increase in the number of patients dying in hospitals,” she said.
The Chartered Computer Institute of Sri Lanka was established in 1976 as the premier and sole body representing professionals in the Information and Communication Technology sector in Sri Lanka. It has recognized the importance of establishing the Sri Lanka Chartered Computer Association as the main professional organization to act on behalf of the interests of professionals representing the computer sector in Sri Lanka, which should be treated equally with other professional organizations that have obtained chartered status and other formal recognition.
Accordingly, taking into account a resolution furnished by the Hon. President, the Cabinet of Ministers has decided to grant policy approval for the establishment of the Chartered Computer Institute of Sri Lanka and to instruct the Legal Draftsman to prepare a draft bill in line with the proposed objectives.
it has become essential to introduce appropriate revisions to the Drug Dependent Persons (Treatment and Rehabilitation) Act No 54 of 2007 so that a proper formal mechanism can be maintained in treatment and rehabilitation.
Accordingly, considering a resolution forwarded by the Minister of Public Security and Parliamentary Affairs, the Cabinet of Ministers decided to grant the policy approval to revise the Drug Dependent Persons (Treatment and Rehabilitation) Act No 54 of 2007 and direct the Legal Draftsman to formulate a draft bill including the relevant amendments.
The Cabinet of Ministers approved the resolution furnished by the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Lands and Irrigation to appoint Mrs. O. T. M. I. Thilakarathne, the senior most officer in Sri Lanka Surveyors’ Service serving as an Additional Surveyor General of that Department to the Post of Surveyor General that will be vacant from 20.08.2026.
Charted Computer Institute of Sri Lanka to be established
Drug Dependent Persons (Treatment and Rehabilitation) Act No 54 of 2007 to be amendmend
Mrs. O. T. M. I. Thilakarathne appointed to the Post of Surveyor General
Purchase of 600 buses for intercity / long distance services of the Sri Lanka Transport Board
Protection of Historical, Cultural, and Traditional Intellectual Property related to the Kandy Esala Perahera
Development of roads which are not under the Road Development Authority
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