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Trade unionists as killers
Friday, 9 May 2008 - 9:03 AM SL Time
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Hippocrates and Florence Nightingale would spin in their graves if they knew what doctors and nurses were doing in this country. Some of those who have taken the Hippocratic Oath have turned out to be a bunch of inveterate hypocrites not caring two hoots about professional conduct and some of the followers of the Lady with the lamp have come to be ladies (and gentlemen) with bludgeons which they wave freely at anyone.
Trade union action by the JVP nurses union at the Ratnapura General Hospital in retaliation for the transfer of a male nurse who locked horns with a doctor the other day has resulted in the loss of three lives including that of a child, according to the Ministry of Health. The hospital director has sought to dispute these figures. He says only one patient has died. It is not the numbers that matter. The fact remains that the strike has led to destruction of life. We have nurses and doctors trying to blame one another for the tragic situation.
Ironically, when a poor garment worker named Chamila was raped and murdered at the Negombo hospital last November, nurses and doctors joined forces to protect the suspect who was a doctor. Nurses tried to frighten the only eyewitness, a female service worker, into silence and when they failed they went on a witch-hunt against her. Hadn t we taken up cudgels for her and jolted the government into protecting her, she would even have lost her job. All the professional organisations pontificating to politicians et al about professional conduct and good governance have chosen to remain mum on that incident, trotting out various excuses. Ever since, doctors and nurses have been at one another s jugular on several occasions. A group of medical students of the Peradeniya University set upon the nurses at the Peradeniya Teaching Hospital a few months ago. They clashed at the National Hospital recently. Is this some kind of nemesis?
It is unfortunate that some members of two respectable professions have stooped to the level of thugs in a fish market, holding as they do patients under their care to ransom. Worse, a Buddhist monk, Ven. Muruttetuwe Ananda Thera, has been at the behest of a nurses union instigating strikes to the neglect of the Buddha s teachings. He seems to have forgotten the Buddha s words: Yo gilanang upaththaiya so mang upaththaiya Anyone who nurses the sick nurses me. How can a Buddhist monk seek to achieve anything for himself or anyone else at the expense of the sick? Ven. Ananda Thera is reported to have promised stern action against his members who took part in the JVP-instigated strike at Ratnapura. That promise is, we reckon, only a tactic to avoid public opprobrium.
We make no attempt to tar all doctors and nurses with the same brush. But, the good doctors and the good nurses have let the unsavoury elements in the garb of unionists bring their noble professions into disrepute. They have allowed their so-called leaders with no regard for human life to lead them by the nose. To that extent, they, too, are guilty of the sins their unions commit in the name of trade union action. All it takes for evil to flourish is the silence of good men and women.
All those who caused, through deliberate action, the deaths in question at the Ratnapura Hospital must be brought to justice immediately. They deserve deterrent punishment. One sees hardly any difference between them and terrorists. The Health Ministry mandarins cannot absolve themselves of the responsibility for the tragic state of affairs at government health institutions. They must be asked to pull their socks up or depart. This applies in equal measure to the Minister of Health who has capitulated to the killer union Mafia in the health sector.
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Damed
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 9 May 2008 07:56:27 GMT Report for Abuse
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Exactly../ one case to courts will stop any repeats.
All Trade Unions are infiltrated by weeramonkeys.
Health workers have throne basic principals of a noble service.
They sabotage day to day issues and finally taking innocent patience life's.
Edited By - Damed - 9 May 2008 08:00:28 GMT |
Magnum357
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 9 May 2008 16:34:18 GMT Report for Abuse
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Killer Trade Unions
GMOA and the PSUNU! Both have blood on their hands.
Edited By - Magnum357 - 9 May 2008 16:34:57 GMT |
dpeiris
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 9 May 2008 21:18:53 GMT Report for Abuse
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Socialism, Revolution and Trade Unionism
Is there any other party, institution or organization on this planet which, is both grossly ignorant of and, ruthlessly disgraces these concepts more than the JVP?
They should be appropriately named 'JANATHA VIRODHEE PERAMUNA' |
AnuD
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9 May 2008 21:23:22 GMT Report for Abuse
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Trade unions contribute to corruption and inefficiency in SriLanka for decades.
GOSL should use other methods to break down trade Unions.
First GOSL should make those political parties supporting trade unions part of the govt.
In the west trade unions are now disappearing and, actually, their confrontational strategy contributed to their demise. |
AnuD
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10 May 2008 06:12:52 GMT Report for Abuse
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Trade Unionists are human too.
they killed some humand for the sake of their ego.
Will they be happy ?
Some one should ask the LEaders of the Trade Union, including the regional leaders from that hospital.
Other nurses also should say whether those are the leaders they want. |
magha
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 10 May 2008 07:00:27 GMT Report for Abuse
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Killer Trade Unions
GMOA and the PSUNU! Both have blood on their hands.
According to nada former vice President of the GMOA when doctors were on strike for 26 days in 1986 killing many people, then President of the GMOA Stanmore, the secretary Rathanpriya and himself are the gentlemen of the trade.
I call such people gutter born dogs, since they disrespected the very people who sweat-ed to give them free education to become doctors. |
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