{"id":163157,"date":"2016-05-29T15:45:48","date_gmt":"2016-05-29T10:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=163157"},"modified":"2016-05-29T15:45:48","modified_gmt":"2016-05-29T10:15:48","slug":"gmoa-wants-rajitha-removed-as-chathura-abuses-ministry-vehicles-and-medicines-for-flood-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/gmoa-wants-rajitha-removed-as-chathura-abuses-ministry-vehicles-and-medicines-for-flood-relief\/","title":{"rendered":"GMOA Wants Rajitha Removed, As Chathura Abuses Ministry Vehicles And Medicines For Flood Relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Government Medical Officers Association <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=GMOA&amp;x=12&amp;y=4\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">(GMOA<\/span><\/a>) has called on President Maithripala Sirisena to remove <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Rajitha+Senaratne&amp;x=10&amp;y=1\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Rajitha Senaratne<\/span><\/a> as the Minister of Health.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_138764\" style=\"width: 147px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/rajitha-puts-foot-in-mouth-again\/rajitha-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-138764\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-138764\" class=\" wp-image-138764\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Rajitha-269x300.jpg\" alt=\"Rajah  Senaratne - Minister of Health\" width=\"137\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Rajitha-269x300.jpg 269w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Rajitha.jpg 428w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 137px) 100vw, 137px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-138764\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rajah Senaratne &#8211; Minister of Health<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Citing reasons for the demand, GMOA Spokesman Dr. Navin De Soysa claimed that the medicines and vehicles belonging to the ministry of health was used and abused by Senaratne\u2019s son, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Chathura+Senaratne&amp;x=16&amp;y=4\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Chathura<\/span><\/a> for flood relief work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe minister\u2019s son distributed the medicines among the flood affected people by pasting his stickers on the packs, as if it was his own. But they used the ministry medicine and vehicles for this task,\u201d the GMOA spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>Soysa urged Sirisena to either bring the ministry under his purview or else to appoint a new qualified person to the position, as there was also increasing interference from Senaratne\u2019s family in ministry decisions.<\/p>\n<p>He also accused Chathura of interfering with ministry work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":138764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>GMOA Wants Rajitha Removed, As Chathura Abuses Ministry Vehicles And Medicines For Flood Relief - 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