Doctors plan mega protests to oust Rajitha
Posted on June 4th, 2019

Courtesy Ceylon Today

Doctors today (4) said that they would unite with the general public to conducted a series of protests against Health and Indigenous Medicine Minister, Dr. Rajitha Senaratne, demanding his removal from the post owing to a series of alleged malpractices including the purchase of 562 million folic acid tablets on the verge of expiry.

Secretary of the Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA), Dr. Haritha Aluthge, addressing the media in Colombo, claimed that legal action too should be taken against Dr. Senaratne. He said that the folic acid, which was given to mothers before and during pregnancy helped prevent birth defects in the baby’s brain and spinal cord.

Dr. Aluthge claimed that by the time the Ministry realised the situation, 540 million of those tablets had already been provided to mothers around the country. Dr. Aluthge said that the Family Health Bureau, Neonatologists and Paediatricians should investigate whether there had been any neural tube defects during the past few months amongst babies born to mothers who had had taken the prenatal vitamin, which was on the brink of its date of expiry.

Assistant Secretary of the GMOA, Dr. Naveen D. Zoysa, alleged that the Health Minister had also been instrumental in purchasing poor quality drugs to treat patients with diabetes.

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