GMOA BU – Horana

The Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) General Committee yesterday unanimously decided to launch a country-wide strike after March 13 to protest against the non-payment of their Disturbance, Availability and Transport (DAT) Allowance. The exact date of the trade union action would be finalized on March 13, the GMOAsaid. President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Treasury Chief Dr. P. …

General Meeting of the GMOA Branch Union – Base Hospital Horana, will be held on 17th February 2011 from 12 noon onwards at the hospital auditorium with the participation of GMOA Mother Union Executive Committee members including Dr. Anuruddha Padeniya (President), Dr. Saman Wadanambi (Vice President), Dr. Chandika Epitakaduwa (Secretary) and several other members. Branch …

The Government Medical Officers’ Association said it would not accept the annual transfer scheme of doctors or consultants in future unless the scheme was combined with alternate schooling for their children. Children of several doctors had been deprived of school facilities when doctors got transfers to new hospitals. The educational authorities, especially the Secretary to …

The Government has decided to implement the Official Language Policy according to the Public Administration Circular 07/2007. All officers recruited to the Public Service with effect from 01.07.2007 should acquire proficiency in the other official language within a period of 5 years in addition to the official language through which they enter the service. Increments …

The Private Medical College (PMC) in Malabe – the South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine’s (SAITM) failure to provide clinical training for its students have not only irked the parents/ students but it is also criminally liable for deceiving parents. Established in 2009, SAITM through newspaper advertisements called for applications from prospective students to …

රජයේ වෛද්‍ය නිලධාරීන්ගේ සංගමයේ උප ලේකම් වෛද්‍ය උපුල් ගුණසේකර ශ‍්‍රී ලංකාවේ පෞද්ගලික වෛද්‍ය අධ්‍යාපනයක් අනවශ්‍යයැයි ඔබ සිතනවාද? අධ්‍යාපනය කියන දේ සාකච්ඡා කළ යුත්තේ රටක ප‍්‍රතිපත්ති සමඟ. ප‍්‍රතිපත්ති පිළිබඳ කතාකරනකොට ඒවාට අදාළව විද්වත් ආයතන තිබෙනවා. එම ආයතන සමඟ සාකච්ඡා නොකර ගත්තු හැම තීරණයක්ම අවසන් වෙලා තිබෙන්නේ ගැටුම්වලින්. මේ පෞද්ගලික වෛද්‍ය විද්‍යාලය ආරම්භ කිරීමත් ඒ වගේ දෙයක්. …

The Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) yesterday insisted on a five-fold basic salary increase from this year’s Budget. Addressing a media briefing at the GMOA head office in Colombo, GMOA President Dr. Anurudda Padeniya said that government doctors expected a salary increase based on the proposals of the National Salary Policy drafted in 2006. Dr. …