Ranjan turns child-patient to trap Anuruddha Padeniya's 'game' -- Padeniya avoids hospital!
Though activities in normal hospitals were shaky due to the medical sector strike which was launched yesterday, channeling services of private hospitals however were in operation as usual.
Since Child Specialist Dr. Anuruddha Padeniya, President of Government Medical Officers' Association made himself available for consultancy last evening (4) for patients at Nawaloka
Hospital, the facility being open to reserve a time under Doc 990 in the internet. Deputy Minister Ranjan Ramanayaka had taken steps to trap this procedure of the doctor concerned and proceeded to reserve a time as a child patient. Day-before-night (3) itself he had reserved No. 6 in Padeniya's list under his own name across the internet and proceeded to participate at a news briefing held at about 11 last afternoon and exposed the facts that in order to check the doctor he had paid a sum of Rs. 1925 and that even by 11 in the afternoon that reservation was not nullified.He also said that this doctor while displaying a strike to the public on the other hand avoids facing a loss on a personal basis thus engaged in a sort of role-play of protesting against SAITM in the face of the public for political necessities.
Whatever it is, after Ranjan's news briefing, telephone calls were received by Nawaloka Hospital in the evening to Padeniya's list of patients and on that occasion the response given was that the doctor would not be present on that day and that the time reserved would be postponed for a different date. Secretary of Medical Officers' Association, Dr. Navin de Soysa who expressed his ideas to the BBC stated that though it was informed in advance that Dr. Padeniya would not be offering his services that day, the website was not updated and therefore it was possible for Ranjan to get his 'appointment'.
In any case, when the Doc 990 institution was contacted they had informed that such a blemish could not occur. They had further informed that they possess a regularised system in their data base where patients are notified if the doctor would not be present and because patients coming from afar maybe subjected to inconvenience the staff engaged on a 24 hour basis at the website would update the information so received no sooner they are notified and in case where a cancellation occurs by some chance the patients concerned are without delay notified across the telephone. The receipt relevant for Ranjan to reserve the channelling service, from below
