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It is going to make hardly any difference to the ordinary, poor and
general public. It all depends on how the doctor is going to instruct or
advise the innocent patient. You can skin a cat in any manner you want.
No law can succeed if the people involved are not righteous, humane,
kind and sympathetic.
There was one doctor in a rural area named Mr. King of Karuna, who
behaved in a manner befitting his title. He used to treat everyone with
kindness, sympathy. If a patient doesn't have enough money to pay the
doctor for the medicines, he accepts whatever the patient could offer
and gives the amount required for the patient's bus fare back home. One
female patient brought a baby boy of 2/3 years of age and got treatment
from this doctor. Then the woman complained to the doctor that she
cannot afford to feed this toddler, in a family of many children, who
happened to be a voracious eater. The doctor asked her to leave the
child with him and so did the mother with great relief. The doctor was
implicated in a murder and was in remand prison until cleared. The first
thing he did from being inside the remand prison was to instruct to take
care of this poor toddler and write in his favour a piece of land for
his future well-being. Do we have souls similar to Doctor K.K. today
amongst us?
RILA
I read a few days ago, a letter from a stressed out driver in regard
to the totally chaotic situation on the Parliament Road, where a couple
of kilometres stretch from Kanatta roundabout to Welikada takes up to
half an hour or more during the rush hours. It was an appeal to the
Welikada Police to do something about it.
However in keeping with the current trend of total disregard for
public convenience or for that matter public opinion, the OIC of
Welikada Police appears to be in deep slumber. Again in keeping with the
general reluctance of our law abiding public to protest injustice or
incompetence of public officials, the thousands of drivers facing this
humiliation daily prefer to do nothing and suffer in silence. This
letter serves to call on as many of them as possible to write to the
police authorities direct or to the letters to the editor column in
newspapers, which might help in opening the eyes of those who can
resolve this sad situation. The press, other than publishing news does a
yeomen service in publishing grievances of the public. So let's use them
for the common benefit of everyone.
I wonder what the so-called DIG Traffic, SSP Traffic and the
countless other hierarchy in the Police Department do other than warming
their seats.
SHIROMAN DE SILVA -
Pitakotte
Horton Plains National Park is supervised under the Department of
Wildlife Conservation. It represents the wet zone ecosystem and is one
of the few parks which allows visitors to travel by foot. On my recent
visit to Horton Plains I was unfortunate to witness the pollution caused
by plastic garbage within its protected boundaries.
Thousands of plastic bottles, polythene bags and lunch sheets were
scattered throughout and I also witnessed people carrying plastic soft
drink bottles into the park. Toffee wrappings, lunch sheets, biscuit
packets, cigarette packs were seen along the route to Baker's Falls and
World's End. The entrance tickets were issued without a baggage check.
When I queried as to why a routine check was not done, the answer was
that there were not enough wildlife officers to do a proper job. At camp
site number 3, I was horrified to see a group of campers smoking. One
lighted cigarette would have been enough to cause a massive forest fire,
destroy hectares of lovely plains, and kill animals in the vicinity. If
a refundable deposit of around Rs.500 is charged, per each plastic item
(water bottles etc.) taken into the national park, visitors would think
twice before disposing plastic garbage. And a heavy fine could be
imposed for smoking or carrying cigarettes into the Horton Plains park
premises.
Wildlife enthusiasts will appreciate, if protective regulations are
imposed by the Minister in charge of the Department of Wildlife
Conservation, to protect the largest high altitude mountain forest in
Sri Lanka.
DR. HIMANTHA ATUKORALE -
Radawana Government Hospital
In the good old days we were taught in our schools the days of the
week commencing from Sunday and ending on Saturday.
But presently in most of our Government schools the children are
being taught the days of the week commencing from Monday and ending on
Sunday. With this change government calendars too were printed
accordingly.
I remember the Chandrika Government was responsible for this change
without any valid reason.
To date, except some recognised private schools and international
schools, the children are being taught commencing from Monday which is
incorrect since we are following British English. In all Christian
countries the old system prevails.
Some prominent banks also have printed their 2008 calendars based on
the new system.
This is causing some confusion in the minds of our school children
and this has to be rectified early.
D. E. ABEYWEERA -
Kelaniya
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