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| Sunday, 4 December 2005 |
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GMOA warns of imminent breakdown The Government Medical Officers' Association yesterday warned that the delay in the recruitment of new doctors to the public health sector may result in the collapse of rural health facilities. "The new batch of medical officers who have completed their internship in March are still waiting for their appointments in the public health sector," GMOA Secretary Dr. Uditha Herath told the Sunday Observer. He said these new medical officers were normally deployed in the rural areas and the delay in their recruitment could lead to the collapse of peripheral health sector. "The normal practice is that the Preliminary Grade Medical Officers are detailed in the hospitals in the periphery. The accepted transfer procedure relating the medical officers is that once detailed in the periphery, they can request a transfer to an area of their preference once they have completed a certain period of service and passed certain exams". He said but the medical officers who had already completed their compulsory period in rural areas could not seek a transfer as there were no replacements due to the delay in new recruitments. "But, if the delay in the recruitment of new medical officers continues, the peripheral health sector could collapse," he said. The GMOA Secretary warned that Jaffna, Point Pedro, Mannar, Vavuniya, Trincomalee, Ampara, Batticaloa, Hambantota, Anuradhapura, Polonnaruwa, Kantale, Badulla and Moneragala hospitals could face an acute shortage of Medical Officers, unless the new batch of medical officers are recruited. RJ |
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