I think my friend Rajitha Senaratne did a good service at a affordable price when he was the Health Minister. He had the political acumen and I am sad to see he is no longer in the parliament.
I am pretty sure if this government try to prosecute him he will win easily at the level of the judiciary. Problem is the cost of the lawyers.
He would have been better off had he being a lawyer.
I do not know whether a dental guy can become a lawyer. I know one dental student became a lawyer. He was doing law before entering the Dental Faculty and he did not complete his dental career.
Rajitha is a dental guy and he was prosecuted only in a procument of dental materials and not any drugs.
I think he paid the fine. One cannot be prosecuted twice on the same offense.
It is long time ago and I cannot remeber the details. I did not ask him any direct questions.
I have not met him for over 40 years but I followed his political career. His son is no match to him and I think he (son) is a political liability.
I wish him political luck in the future.
He is a guy who should be in the parliament until he decides to retire.
This piece is about health crisis.
1. There is acute shortage of drugs in hospitals. Our domestic aid died recently due to lack of medicine in both government and private dispensaries.
2. There is acute shortge of vaccines. What is available has expired and is the cheap Indian stuff.
3. Some hospitals have outstanding electricity bills.
This has direct effect on process of sterilization.
4. This is true of the water bills.
In my analysis health is proportional to the amount of water that is consumed.
5. Disposable gloves are in short supply. Doing a postmortem is a big liability.
6. Incineration facilities are not available.
Even incineration at the cemetery one has to pay a big sum.
7. Disposable syringes are expensive and not available at both public and private sector.
One has to buy them even in private hospitals.
8. Catheters for kidneys patients are in short supply.
9. Worse part is most of the qualified doctors are leaving Ceylon at the first opportunity.
10. Ceylon was a country which WHO took as a model country.
11. Under trying conditions Gotabaya managed the coronavirus admirably.
These guys cannot match a dust partcle in his feet.
I think Gotabaya is entitled for a sarcastic smile looking at how NPP/JVP guys perform in health sector while in power.
12. The crisis in Health is enough to bring this Government in the next election.
People do not expect free meal but they prefer Free Education and Free Health.
13. This a good opportunity for IMF to cut our Health and Education budget further.
Please wait till the next tranch and see how much is allocated to health.
I guess less than the total digitalization of citizens of Ceylon by a totally Indian company.
Government has got it's priorities right.
Digitalization is first and health of people is the last.
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