Doctors to strike..! Hurt over duty free vehicle permit withdrawal

(Lanka-e-News- 30.Nov.2015, 11.30AM) The government medical officers asociation (GMOA) which considers itself as a ‘Doctor caste ‘ that is superior to others  has decided  to stage a strike in the next few days to the detriment of the helpless patients they ought to serve selflessly, it is learnt.

The central committee of the GMOA that met on the 27 th  has arrived at this decision. What had driven  the GMOA to take this decision is , the withdrawal of the duty free permit for import of super luxury vehicles hitherto granted to all ministers downwards to government officers . It is the GMOA’s aim to include their salary increments too  in this impending  strike.

May we highlight  this ‘Doctor caste’ that  serve in the government sector are permitted to earn as much as they want through private practice. Even a government engineer or a lawyer is not entitled to such privileges. Even  in England where Democracy is of the five star level , government doctors are not allowed to earn via private practice . In England  even their own children cannot be medically treated by them privately. 

Whereas , in Sri Lanka , the doctors are enjoying the maximum  special privileges and perks, as well as the opportunities to earn as much as they want via private practice. Besides a majority of them have become doctors  after taking advantage of the free education granted to them , which cost are met by the public fund collected through taxation on the hard earned monies of the common man. 

It is a pity this ‘doctor caste’ which considers itself as superior to others has selfishly reckoned the new budget proposal of the present government in the larger interests of the entire nation , as hitting below the belt of the Doctors . Hence the nation hopes  they would at least at this crucial juncture of nation building put country  and the patients they must necessarily serve before self.   

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by     (2015-11-30 06:07:48)