{"id":154448,"date":"2026-02-02T15:39:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T22:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=154448"},"modified":"2026-02-02T15:39:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T22:39:57","slug":"50-doctors-to-exit-national-eye-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2026\/02\/02\/50-doctors-to-exit-national-eye-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"50 doctors to exit National Eye Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>50 doctors at the National Eye Hospital are set to depart simultaneously this week following transfer orders issued by the Public Service Commission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Government Medical Officers&#8217; Association (GMOA) Executive Member Prasad Colombage stated that certain malicious remarks allegedly made by the hospital director and the Health Minister contributed to this decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, services across 164 specialist medical units nationwide faced significant disruptions today after all specialist doctors under the GMOA withdrew from cover duties starting at 8:00 AM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GMOA President Specialist Dr. Sanjeewa Tennakoon noted that this professional action has hindered operations in operating theaters, intensive care units, and departments including radiology, anesthesiology, obstetrics and gynecology, and psychiatry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Patients seeking treatment at government hospitals continued to face severe difficulties as a result of the ongoing trade union action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News 50 doctors at the National Eye Hospital are set to depart simultaneously this week following transfer orders issued by the Public Service Commission. Government Medical Officers&#8217; Association (GMOA) Executive Member Prasad Colombage stated that certain malicious remarks allegedly made by the hospital director and the Health Minister contributed to this decision. Meanwhile, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154449,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154448\/revisions\/154449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}