{"id":63088,"date":"2017-02-05T06:07:01","date_gmt":"2017-02-05T13:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=63088"},"modified":"2017-02-05T06:07:01","modified_gmt":"2017-02-05T13:07:01","slug":"gmoa-and-jvp-to-hold-discussions-on-saitm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/02\/05\/gmoa-and-jvp-to-hold-discussions-on-saitm\/","title":{"rendered":"GMOA and JVP to hold discussions on SAITM"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/span> <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>February 5, 2017\u00a0\u00a010:25 am<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; See more at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adaderana.lk\/news\/38966\/gmoa-and-jvp-to-hold-discussions-on-saitm#sthash.pnrdfFXH.dpuf\">http:\/\/www.adaderana.lk\/news\/38966\/gmoa-and-jvp-to-hold-discussions-on-saitm#sthash.pnrdfFXH.dpuf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What did I tell you in my article below &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>I can understand rationale if the GMOA tries to muster other affiliated unions and organizations to support them .<\/p>\n<p>But why JVP and JO ?\u00a0 During previous regime they allowed Saitem to function All of a sudden JO is opposing? JVP as usual try to get popularity by stirring any public issue .They have done it before and they want to stir it again .If you read the article below ,I have emphasized that in 1984 ,GMOA was hand in glove with JVP.<\/p>\n<p>I read one article by Dr\u00a0\u00a0 Ruwan M Jayathunge under caption\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/02\/03\/%e0%b7%83%e0%b6%ba%e0%b7%92%e0%b6%a7%e0%b6%b8%e0%b7%8a-%e0%b7%80%e0%b7%92%e0%b6%bb%e0%b7%9d%e0%b6%b0%e0%b6%ba\/\"><strong>\u0dc3\u0dba\u0dd2\u0da7\u0db8\u0dca<\/strong> <strong>\u0dc0\u0dd2\u0dbb\u0ddd\u0db0\u0dba<\/strong><\/a> where he clearly mentioned that GMOA should try to improve Quality of Saitem rather than fighting against them<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quote <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u0dc3\u0dba\u0dd2\u0da7\u0db8\u0dca<\/strong> <strong>\u0dc0\u0dd2\u0dbb\u0ddd\u0db0\u0dba<\/strong> <strong>\u0db8\u0dad\u0dd4<\/strong> <strong>\u0d9a\u0dbd<\/strong> 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<strong>\u0daf\u0db8\u0db1<\/strong> <strong>\u0dbd\u0daf\u0dd2<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Unquote <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is high time that the president who is the\u00a0 ultimate savior ,interferes and tell GMOA to mind their business  and treat patients .One day people in some areas may attack hospitals and doctors with vengeance .What will JVP do ? Save them ?<\/p>\n<p>It looks like that the engineers who also do a yeoman service to the nation ( like CEB,Water Board,RDA ,ect etc ) are \u00a0more human than doctors .<\/p>\n<p>It is high time that government takes drastic measure and lock up the GMOA leaders so that their wives and children are left in despair .<\/p>\n<p><strong>Four hour doc strike cripples hospitals<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I despise strikes by anyone let alone doctors\u00a0 .There may be various allegations against some ministers for allowing SAITM to commence teaching ,but we all have to understand that some parents have the right to give education to their children in the medical field .If the state\u00a0 cannot do that they tend to go abroad and get then educated where our hard earned foreign reserves depletes.<\/p>\n<p>JVP instigated terror in 70 s and 80 s and the doctors stayed home\u00a0 due to fear, That time GMOA was hand in hand with JVP and helped them.My story below show that they were supporting strike action for no apparent reason .<\/p>\n<p>My wife started working in Sri Lanka after returning from Russia.\u00a0 During the height of JVP terror, all the doctors were asked to stay home by gun trotting\u00a0 members of the party ,who were sending Chit\u201d to every house hold,I advised my wife not to give in .She was the only doctors who was working and hospital sent an\u00a0 ambulance daily for her to go to work ,<\/p>\n<p>GMOA top leaders came to know about it and came to my house in Gampaha to instigate her not to work My wife was at work and I was luckily at home .They had the audacity to come in to our house and to force\u00a0 me to tell her not work .I asked for justification ,but their answer is that members should abide by the Central Committee decision .I told he that my wife is not educated to be a doctor with public money, but in Communist Russia ,and they have\u00a0 educated her to treat medical profession as\u00a0 noble one, and the duty of doctors should come first .I also told GMOA that they do not even recognize my wife\u2019s Medical State University and they have no rights what so ever to press her and asked them not very politely asked them\u00a0 to walk out of my house .<\/p>\n<p>GMOA can fight their battle in a different ways ,but\u00a0 making\u00a0 poor patients suffer is not acceptable .<\/p>\n<p>If you\u00a0 walk into few private hospitals you will see this doctors doing private practice when\u00a0 strike is on .<\/p>\n<p>We are supposed to be a Buddhist Country and we should have better compassion and kindness to mankind<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera February 5, 2017\u00a0\u00a010:25 am &#8211; See more at: http:\/\/www.adaderana.lk\/news\/38966\/gmoa-and-jvp-to-hold-discussions-on-saitm#sthash.pnrdfFXH.dpuf What did I tell you in my article below &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; I can understand rationale if the GMOA tries to muster other affiliated unions and organizations to support them . But why JVP and JO ?\u00a0 During previous regime they allowed Saitem to function [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63088","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=63088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}