{"id":69049,"date":"2017-08-18T16:55:33","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T23:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=69049"},"modified":"2017-08-18T16:55:33","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T23:55:33","slug":"docs-threaten-to-leave-slmc-if-it-is-hijacked-by-health-minister-news-item","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/08\/18\/docs-threaten-to-leave-slmc-if-it-is-hijacked-by-health-minister-news-item\/","title":{"rendered":"Docs threaten to leave SLMC if it is hijacked by Health Minister \u2026.News Item"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><em>\u00a0The Government Medical Officers\u2019 Association (GMOA) yesterday warned that its members would pull out of the Sri Lanka Medical Council (SLMC) if the government forced the Council to register medical graduates of the South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine (SAITM) as well.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0Addressing the media in Colombo, GMOA Assistant Secretary, Dr Naveen D. Zoysa said the union was seriously considering that move\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So what ?<\/p>\n<p>Do you think that if the doctors pull out from SLMC whole health system in\u00a0 Sri Lnka will collapse ?<\/p>\n<p>Do they think that they can dictate terms to the country and the government .?<\/p>\n<p>We have a dentist as a health minister, and no harm in having a doctor presidential contender in time to come .( like in Syria)<\/p>\n<p>These Soyzas and Padeniya;s do not spend time in treating patients .They are doing politics.<\/p>\n<p>As suggested earlier let them leave GMOA also .and leave the country and look to go to \u00a0Africa ?<\/p>\n<p>Free school education ,free university education , duty free cars ,bank loans ,OPD doctors working only 2-3 hours for the day, consultants doing private practice during working hours and charging exorbitant amounts from poor people .enjoying a status in the society, getting preferential\u00a0 treatment by traffic cops ,having special treatment in for admissison of their \u00a0children to top schools and once in a while attending meeting with PM and HE , getting discounts from Pharmacists ,obtaining foreign travel scholarships., enjoying trips funded by drug companies and cartels,and attending gourmet dinners in 5 starg hotels with drug reps \u2026\u2026..and more and more privileges?<\/p>\n<p>We should all got o Ayurveda and\u00a0 local\u00a0 medical treatment like in villages .and foregt about these Animals ?<\/p>\n<p>Ask them got to hell..<\/p>\n<p>Where they will end up anyway after this life for committing crimes against humanity<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera \u00a0The Government Medical Officers\u2019 Association (GMOA) yesterday warned that its members would pull out of the Sri Lanka Medical Council (SLMC) if the government forced the Council to register medical graduates of the South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine (SAITM) as well. \u00a0Addressing the media in Colombo, GMOA Assistant Secretary, Dr [&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-69049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69049","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=69049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}