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Doctors, staff found playing truant
Friday, 21 April 2006 - 3:18 AM SL Time
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In 51 raids conducted by the Health Ministry Flying Squad islandwide, around 161 personnel, both medical and non-medical, attached to hospitals are alleged to have defrauded Health Ministry. It was found that 90 medical officers at the Sri Jayawardenapura hospital, including four consultants and 28 non-medical staff at the Maharagama Cancer hospital did not properly maintain diaries and attendance registers.
Health Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva told The Island that when the Flying Squad raided the Maharagama cancer hospital on January 13 (Poya day) they found that the attendance registers had been fraudulently marked at 1.45 p.m.and the respective staff had also left the hospital. He said that the flying squad had subsequently found that staff comprising, accountants,
clerical personnel and administrative officers, had been marking the attendance register the following day as 4.45 p.m. instead of 1.45 p.m. which they had marked previous day.
He said these personnel had also been claiming overtime on the pretext that they had worked previous day and it was found that they had been doing this for the last one year.
Minister de Silva stressed that around 90 doctors including 4 consultant physicians who were supposed to maintain diaries had not been doing so that they could claim overtime and engage in private practice. He said that the flying squad had found that around 15 doctors, who were supposed to be on duty, at the Sri Jayawardanepura hospital at the time of the raid had been missing.
Referring to the duty of doctors, the Minister said that in accordance with Health Ministry Circular, every doctor was required to maintain a diary given to them as a special privilege and added that it had been found that some doctors who had been reporting for duty were attending to personal matter to the neglect of their duty.
He said disciplinary action would be taken against the culprits and it would include discontinuation of annual increments and transference to North and East and peripheral hospitals.
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DrAkai
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20 Apr 2006 21:27:02 GMT Report for Abuse
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He said disciplinary action would be taken against the culprits and it would include discontinuation of annual increments and transference to North and East and peripheral hospitals.
It seems Nimal Siripala is doing the honours of rebuilding NE, not bad for a start! |
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20 Apr 2006 21:42:54 GMT Report for Abuse
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He said disciplinary action would be taken against the culprits and it would include discontinuation of annual increments and transference to North and East and peripheral hospitals.
Yep, keep sending corrupted and rotten staff to NE and start re-building! Even after 30 yrs of war, no change in the mentality.
And Abising believes there are some Sinhala leaders already born, to solve the Tamil issues.
Poor Abi couldn't name even a few! |
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20 Apr 2006 21:50:09 GMT Report for Abuse
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Ananth19,
Nimal Siripala's idea is to get the rotten corrupted lot to reform from LTTE. Let's put in that way. May be he was having second thoughts after first round of talks in Geneva. |
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20 Apr 2006 22:33:11 GMT Report for Abuse
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I don't want to generalize ( becuase it's not fair to put everyone in the same boat) but most sri lankan doctors are one spoilt lot. We are perhaps one of the few countries in the world where a medical degree is given free of charge, but once they graduate many of these doctors enter the big 'medcial buisness'.
Everyone needs to earn their dough, but this is one profession where you can't be blinded by greed. Like most other things in the country, it's the wrong people for the wrong job-they would have been better off doing a IT or management degree and earning the big bucks-thatway, no one's life is in jeorpady and they have not used our money to do that! |
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20 Apr 2006 22:40:58 GMT Report for Abuse
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Hi Shanika,
A doctor supposed to be a Godly profession not chasing for money like vultures to the corpse that is why they are educated by the tax payers money and take an oath. It is absolutely sad to see some of this rotten apples bring disrepute to the good ones who do world of good. |
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20 Apr 2006 23:04:17 GMT Report for Abuse
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This is what happens when immature ministers are given the opportunity to rebuild the nation.
The FEELING with which one does the work is far more important than the physical level work itself. The findings in the hospitals would not be different to the findings in other essential services funded by the Public. The Minister failed to develop regular bottom up reporting and hence relies on 'spy' work at the process level. This could result in losing outstanding service oriented workers who feel indepedent enough not to follow obsolete top-down administrative rules.
The Minister failed to respond to the bottom up report that I sent him regarding the CFA. Service work happens / is done close to the point at which Top-Down Administration and Bottom-up Facilities meet. Some of these professionals would have been building bottom-up facilities which the Minister has unlawfully damaged.
Gaja Lakshmi Paramasivam from Australia |
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21 Apr 2006 07:49:54 GMT Report for Abuse
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it would include discontinuation of annual increments and transference to North and East and peripheral hospitals.
this man must be given mental treatment !!
Doctors do not want to surve in N and E due to war and rural problems. im sure this is what he ment.
but it certainly aint look good. |
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