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Government has taken over 50 estate hospitals intended to serve nearly one million estate sector employees.
They lacked proper management, staff to render medical care and most had only the name boards and failed to provide even the minimum required treatment when an estate worker fell ill, Health Ministry sources said.
"The conditions at these hospitals were so deplorable the Central Government thought it fit to bring it under the care of the Health Ministry instead of the Provincial Councils so that a quick...
Elections Commission a must
for fair polls - Karu
UNP Deputy leader Karu Jayasuriya, addressing an
election rally at the party office in Horowpathana Road in support of
the party’s candidates contesting the Vavuniya Urban Council elections,
said that it was imperative to...
Nearly 10% of population
disabled
Nearly ten per cent of the country’s population consists
of disabled persons. Minister of Labour Relations and Manpower
Resources, Athauda Seneviratne revealed this at the opening of the
Centre for the Disabled at Battaramulla.
Preventing suicide among school children
There is so much parents and teachers...
IMF loan: No exchange rate targets, CB not free either
The
question of European reprisals
The IMF loan came through at last despite so
many attempts to block it. It is...
