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A tense situation has broken out outside the Lady Ridgeway Hospital in Maradana where over 3000 people have gathered, demanding the second doses of the AstraZeneca vaccinations.
People had started lining up outside the Hospital since today morning as Whatsapp messages circulated that jabs were being administered inside the Hospital, but for staff and selected people.
Several people rushed to the area and began demanding the vaccines, breaching all health protocols as no social distancing was maintained.
Public frustration over not receiving the second doses of AstraZeneca is clearly growing as the government is yet to secure 600,000 doses of the vaccines which they require for the second roll out program.
In recent days, there has been increasing allegations that some doctors have been administering the doses only on friends, relatives and families and even their domestic helpers which has resulted in the Public Health Inspectors pulling out of their official duties in disgust.
There are also allegations that those with influence and connections have been able to receive the jabs, clearly breaching the protocol which the Health Ministry was required to follow on administering the jabs according to the dates of the first doses. (JAMILA HUSAIN)
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Sunil Tuesday, 25 May 2021 12:50 PM
There is whole scale corruption and confusion. This government has failed miserably in almost everything. Only thing they are good at is corruption.
VJ Tuesday, 25 May 2021 02:40 PM
This is the result of no clear direction from the government.
Kumaran, Wattala Tuesday, 25 May 2021 03:03 PM
This is the result of failure of the system due to the incompetence of the authorities. The President should take immediate action to rectify this chaos.
Demuni Uduwara Tuesday, 25 May 2021 05:51 PM
We don't have lawful rulers.
Jeeves Tuesday, 25 May 2021 06:59 PM
Mad situation- crowds with no distancing! Let's hope they don't get a dose of Covid instead of the second dose!
Dil Langan Tuesday, 25 May 2021 07:49 PM
No Doctors, nurses , Public Health Inspectors (PHI) have died of Covid-19, in Sri Lanka. Covid-19 is mild in Lanka because of Universal BCG Vaccination. Doctors know this but pretend they do not and GMOA, SLMA and other doctors organizations have been promoting themselves through the Covid-19 hoax and Vaccine roll out because they get paid by Big Pharamceutical companies who are making big profits from untested Covid-19 vaccines. WHO which also buys doctors with jaunts, and conference trips and job offers overseas. Sorry to say majority of doctors in Lanka a selfish. money-mad and greedy lot who have forgotten the Hippocratic Oath “DO NO HARM” to patients. Seasonal Monsoon flu has been replaced with the Covid-19 fear psychosis by the GMOA SLMA and so Sri Lanka economy and poor people are suffering with lockdowns and no wages, while doctors sit in their comfortable air-conditioned rooms and duty free cars and talk non sense about Covid!.
Don Tuesday, 25 May 2021 08:05 PM
A close relative of Rulers (One ? Dr. Rajapaksa) who is running care-homes in many parts of Sri Lanka, for posh palliative patients, has stolen Astra -Zeneca Covidshield vaccines to jab his private nursing staff.
dickie bird Tuesday, 25 May 2021 09:29 PM
This is vindictive politics. This is the mentality of the people who has absorbed Politics as religion. Gullible people. GOSL must trace the origins of this message and put that person behind bars. Why do people believe what appears in Whatsapp
Ranaweera Tuesday, 25 May 2021 11:57 PM
President and the Army the only parties working together, rest of the guys are going in multiple directions.
N SENA Wednesday, 26 May 2021 12:13 AM
GOVT PLANS NOT WORKING WELL BUT IN A HELL OF A MESS
TokyoBuwa Wednesday, 26 May 2021 07:54 AM
Personal favours for GMOA doctors and their families, wasn't this in SLPP "hidden" manifesto ? Don't blame the government for implementing their own "manifesto", after all most in these lines voted for that, didn't they ?
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