Govt. neglects women who turn their blood into dollars – Daya Gamage
Saturday, 09 March 2013
Women who turn their lifeblood into milk and nuture their children likewise turn their blood, sweat and tears into dollars in doing jobs overseas to send valuable foreign exchange into the country, but the present regime has failed to take a single step to prevent torture and various other harassments they undergo at the hands of their employers, said UNP national organizer and eastern provincial councillor Daya Gamage.
He was speaking today at a certification distribution to women who had successfully received self employment training at Medagama Vihara in Gampaha today.
Mr. Gamage noted that women contribute 70 per cent of the foreign exchange earnings of the country.
The eastern province alone has 70,000 widows, but the present administration has no plan to solve their problems, he charged.
The garments factories opened under the UNP governments had provided hundreds of thousands of jobs for women, he said.
The inability of the government and its mismanagement of the economy have resulted in severe economic degradation, and the government has been unable even to pay its contractors, said Mr. Gamage.
Evey business is in trouble, while the state debt has increased although savings had declined, he said.
Only the liquor shops and betting centres, which give false hopes to the masses, are thriving, but that has made matters worse for the womenfolk, he noted.
Furthermore, women cannot walk on the roads without fear or doubt, he said.
The chairman of Daya Group of Companies also said that he was doing his utmost to help women improve their economy, even without his not having the power of government.
The ‘Diri Shakthi’ loan scheme provides Rs. 25,000 loans to women to develop their self-employment ventures, he said.
Describing how his companies made a gradual development, Mr. Gamage advised the women the make a firm determination and to start their ventures small and expand them later.
He added that former president Chandrika Kumaratunga, as a woman, had provided the best service to the Gampaha area.
X-tray filming had been done for twenty thousand and 457 persons in year 2012, at the Jaffna Teaching hospital.
Patients warded in hospitals and outdoor patients have taken X-trays is according to the statistics taken by the hospital. Towards this task four X-tray machines are utilized.
The X-tray unit is operated for 24 hours, however after 4.00 p.m, it is used to take X-trays for patients warded in emergency ward.
Saturday , 09 March 2013
