{"id":194653,"date":"2018-10-24T14:16:43","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T08:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=194653"},"modified":"2018-10-24T14:16:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T08:46:43","slug":"appoint-a-qualified-medical-administrator-to-jpura-investigate-allegations-association-of-medical-specialists-tells-rajitha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/appoint-a-qualified-medical-administrator-to-jpura-investigate-allegations-association-of-medical-specialists-tells-rajitha\/","title":{"rendered":"Appoint A Qualified Medical Administrator To J\u2019Pura, Investigate Allegations! &#8211;\u00a0Association Of Medical Specialists Tells Rajitha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Association of Medical Specialists (AMS) in a letter dated 18.10.2018 addressed to the Minister of Health urged Rajitha Senaratne to investigate the allegations against the quasi director of Sri Jayewardenepura General Hospital (SJGH) Dr Susitha Senaratne and to appoint a duly qualified Medical Administrator.<\/p>\n<p>Dr R.P. Dayasena, Secretary to the AMS writing to the Minister has highlighted that the quasi director is harassing specialists at SJGH. He has further stated that SJGH as a post graduate training institute suffers in its credibility as a tertiary care hospital and that it should be administered by a properly qualified director.<\/p>\n<p><b>Director Of The Post Graduate Institute Of Medicine Joins The Corrupt<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Professor Janaka De Silva, Director, Post Graduate Institute of Medicine (PGIM) is one of the ex officio members of the Board of Directors of SJGH. Prof. He sits at the SJGH Board to ensure that the hospital is run in a credible manner that ensures the quality of the post graduate training of doctors. Janaka De Silva has been a consistent supporter of the unqualified quasi director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Susitha+Senaratne\">Susitha Senaratne<\/a>, and a supporter of Dr <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Athula+Kahandaliyanage\">Athula Kahandaliyanage<\/a> in protecting this political stooge.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>In all the moves to implement the law and the directive of the courts and the parliamentary COPE, Janaka De Silva, instead of looking out for the credibility of SJGH as a post graduate training institute has been supporting the perpetuation of this tertiary care hospital being run by an incapable medical officer whose only qualification is being the minister\u2019s lackey.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cInvestigate The Allegations\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The letter by the AMS requests the minister to investigate in to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/mr-minister-tie-your-dog-specialists-at-sjgh-and-ams-tell-rajitha\/\">the allegations of harassment<\/a> of the members of the AMS by Susitha Senaratne. Most notably Susitha Senaratne referred to SJGH where he is employed, as an unsafe place for children and referred to its Consultant Pediatrician as a pig via his Facebook account.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Minister-of-Health_Re.-Complain-by-Dr-Aloysius_SJGH.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-194633\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Minister-of-Health_Re.-Complain-by-Dr-Aloysius_SJGH.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"1237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Minister-of-Health_Re.-Complain-by-Dr-Aloysius_SJGH.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Minister-of-Health_Re.-Complain-by-Dr-Aloysius_SJGH-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Minister-of-Health_Re.-Complain-by-Dr-Aloysius_SJGH-768x1056.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Minister-of-Health_Re.-Complain-by-Dr-Aloysius_SJGH-745x1024.jpg 745w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On 22.10.2018 the majority of the specialists of SJGH have handed over a letter of no confidence against Athula Kahandaliyanage and Susitha Senaratne to Rajitha Senaratne. They have submitted their provisional protest at either Kahandaliyanage or Susitha Senaratne being re-appointed to the now dissolved SJGH Board in any capacity, based on the violations of law, rules, medical ethics and common decency by the said individuals.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Three specialists who have a track record of tender irregularities, collecting personal favors for off spring, not being available in the hospital premises during work hours, bartering consumables and equipment from favored suppliers -have been ear marked to be crept in illegally to the Board. However the majority of the united specialists of SJGH have resisted this illegal move and averted the attempt.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":194633,"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-194653","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>Appoint A Qualified Medical Administrator To J\u2019Pura, Investigate Allegations! -\u00a0Association Of Medical Specialists Tells Rajitha - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/appoint-a-qualified-medical-administrator-to-jpura-investigate-allegations-association-of-medical-specialists-tells-rajitha\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Appoint A Qualified Medical Administrator To J\u2019Pura, Investigate Allegations! 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