AG advice on alcohol charge

Tuesday, 01 February 2011 22:15

By Gandhya Senanayake

A new policy which was scheduled to be implemented from February 1st which makes it obligatory for alcohol users to pay for any government medical services they receive, will be implemented soon after the necessary legal advice is taken from the Attorney General's Department Health Ministry Officials told Daily Mirror online

The circular has been sent to the Attorney General Department for legal advice, Health officials said

It was earlier reported that patients who are treated at state hospitals for injuries sustained as a result of drunken behavior or drunk driving will be charged a medical expense of Rs. 2,000 on the recommendation of the doctors from February 1st. (Daily Mirror online)

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-0+5#manmohan2011-02-01 23:41

AMMA GAHAI !

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-0+9#Neomal2011-02-02 00:10

Is this the same rule for Parliamentarians too?

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-1+20#C.K..Lankaputhra2011-02-02 08:14

Please do not charge from patients who have consumed liquor produced by government owned distilleries and taverns for which permits issued by the government.

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-0+1#xlntgson2011-02-02 15:20

Not for binge drinking!

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-0+0#Cobra2011-02-02 17:05

A good one CK- hope the nut who thought this up gets your point!

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-16+10#Vikum2011-02-02 08:35

Good move....get some money from such idiots and enhance the quality of the hospitals....this should have taken a decade ago though......

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-0+0#DL2011-02-02 15:19

well well...who pays most of the taxes which maintain and build those hospitals? mostly it comes from alcohol...

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-9+6#sai2011-02-02 08:46

Excellent news…
Keep going such implementations…

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-1+8#meranchi2011-02-02 09:03

stop sale alcohol no no then start to distill jungle wodka

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-1+8#lankaputha2011-02-02 09:44

Who is controling that money?

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-0+12#Rajitha2011-02-02 11:05

this is extremely unfair. it is the alcohol consumers that pay the highest percentage of tax money to the government, which the government use to provide free health care to the rest of the population. yet those who contribute the most are to be denied the service. unfair.

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-0+3#V2011-02-02 12:50

Yeh agreed with you

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-3+1#pradeeplla2011-02-02 11:18

its good for develop our health.

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-0+0#Cobra2011-02-02 17:08

Naturally it will be a 'go'!!!

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