Hospital sources say that nine doctors have left the Anuradhapura Teaching Hospital. Meanwhile, six doctors have taken two-year and five-year leave, said the sources.
Anuradhapura Teaching Hospital closed the unit recently due to the departure of four paediatricians and transferred the treated pediatric patients to other wards. Medical students also lost the opportunity to get clinical training due to the closure of the children’s ward belonging to the professor unit of Rajarata University’s Faculty of Medicine.
In this regard, when asked by the director of Anuradhapura Teaching Hospital, Mr Dulan Samaraweera, he said that it is known that the specialist doctors have left, and another group of doctors have left, but it is not possible to say how many. He said that the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Health are aware of the shortage of doctors in Ward 63 of the Prof. Medical Complex Unit, and there is no solution to those problems yet.
The director said that several doctors of the teaching hospital take leave and go abroad all the time and said that it is a matter of duty. He mentioned that several people have been referred by the Ministry of Health on behalf of the doctors who left the service and went abroad and the patients have not been greatly affected due to the doctors going abroad. (Lankadeepa)
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