No Board, No Chairman, No Director: Tamasha By J’pura Hospital Stooges With Rajitha
A dinner was organized by the fake director of Sri Jayewardenepura General Hospital (SJGH) to “review and recognize the hard work and commitment of all senior staff for all consultants, executive staff and unit heads” on Friday 11th January 2019. This event was held with the attendance of the Minister of Health Rajitha Senaratne at the Grand Monarch Thalawathugoda, Colombo Telegraph reliably learns. According to the invitation email circulated by the fake Director of SJGH Susitha Senaratne, this is a celebration of the “the remarkable improvement of hospital services in 2018“.
Infamous 2018 At J’Pura Hospital
The SJGH is currently on its third year of failure to present acceptable audits to the Auditor General of Sri Lanka. The daily loss of revenue per day of this once prestigious hospital is 4 million rupees a day.
In January 2018, 600 strong nursing staff took to the streets, along with other categories of staff bringing the hospital to a standstill for 10 days, the first ever such shut down in the hospital’s 36 year history. These workers demanded the recruitment of a duly qualified director instead of the political stooge and thug of Rajitha Senaratne.
