{"id":82312,"date":"2018-10-24T20:39:56","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T02:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=82312"},"modified":"2018-10-24T13:39:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T20:39:04","slug":"a-bouquet-to-our-national-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/10\/24\/a-bouquet-to-our-national-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bouquet to our National Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"

Garvin Karunaratne<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

On 23 rd August 2018,\u00a0 a relation of mine who was unconscious was discharged from a leading Private Hospital in Colombo., because the son and daughter\u00a0 could no more pay hospital bills They had paid three million rupees to the Hospital\u00a0 for 17 days stay and had no more funds. Until then they had often graced Private Hospitals.\u00a0 We\u00a0 in London were very sad. Everyone expected the worst. The\u00a0 patient who was not unconscious when admitted, said to be suffering from Viral Flue, diagnosed later\u00a0 as pneumonia,\u00a0 even had a bout of heart failure and finally became unconscious.<\/p>\n

They contacted the National Hospital in Colombo and explained their plight.\u00a0 They had no other alternative. They were told that they were welcome to come in<\/p>\n

At the National Hospital, the unconscious patient\u00a0 was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit.. The doctors were very kind and prompt.\u00a0 ..The doctors and nurses to a man nursed the patient. In a few days the patient recognized the son and daughter. Evidently the patient was out of danger and we in London rejoiced.\u00a0 The Hospital\u00a0 brought her around in\u00a0 twenty six days all due to the care offered by the doctors, consultants and nurses. Consultants Bilshan and Manoj deserve to be congratulated for working beyond\u00a0 the call of their duty caring for our dear relatives.<\/p>\n

The patient was conscious, could talk sensibly and it was great to talk to her over the phone once again.<\/p>\n

The patient was released, and asked to gain admission to the Rehabilitation Hospital at Ragama for physiotherapy.<\/p>\n

However, though the National Hospital has been taken care of,\u00a0 the Rehabilitation Center at Ragama where she was next\u00a0 due to have been admitted for physiotherapy had seen bad days. She has been asked to come as an outpatient on four days a week. There are only some thirteen beds for women and this is all due to the fact that a building is yet under construction. I am told there are some fifty or so women patients who need close attention who have had to reside in nearby homes and become day patients.<\/p>\n

It is hoped that the Ministry of Health will take some action- at least to get a temporary donation of a tent from the Army, where more beds can be accommodated till the buildings can be constructed. I hope this request will reach the ears of our Minister or our Hon President.<\/p>\n

Many thanks to our National Hospital and its able staff.<\/p>\n

Garvin Karunaratne<\/p>\n

24\/10\/18<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Garvin Karunaratne On 23 rd August 2018,\u00a0 a relation of mine who was unconscious was discharged from a leading Private Hospital in Colombo., because the son and daughter\u00a0 could no more pay hospital bills They had paid three million rupees to the Hospital\u00a0 for 17 days stay and had no more funds. Until then they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-by-garvin-karunaratne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82312","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=82312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}