Sri Lanka has failed to contain COVID-19 within Western Province: GMOA
Sri Lanka has failed to contain COVID-19 within the Western Province and the virus has now spread to the rest of the country, the Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA) charged.
“If we plot the statistics for total and active cases on a graph, we see a rapid increase after October. The numbers don’t seem to be going down anytime soon,” GMOA Editor Dr Haritha Aluthge told reporters last week.
“This is why we say as a country we have failed. We failed to manage the virus and keep it inside the Western Province and now it has spread all over the country,” he added.
If the number of cases thus increases daily, Aluthge said, in the near future Sri Lanka will be looking at a situation where discussions about the highest number of deaths is the norm.
“That is what happened around the world. If this continues for another month or two where are we going to end up? Similarly rapid increases in cases resulted in very dangerous situation in other countries,” he said.
“We say this because we have limited [treatment] capacity in Sri Lanka. We already have many high risk areas in the country,” he added.
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Yes my dear GMOA,
We have failed because GMOA members have failed to recognize the effectiveness of Dhammikage Peniya AKA Kali Amma Peniya.
GMOA members are out to make money at the cost of lives in this Chinese Pandemic.
Abrew,
To be honest very rarely I find you have made good comment. Yes, GMOA is driven by averice at any cost, as you said, to lives of general public.
GMOA should have mentioned clearly their opinion on Dammika Peniya and other myths:Dammika Paniya is not, at all, Ayurvedic drug, but something based on Kali Amma’s advice. Dammika Bandara is a psychiatric patient, as he said sometimes he behaves as Kali amma and sometimes as Dammika Bandara.
But GMOA has been silent in all the time.
We need a scientific development.
Pl listen to this video. Take time pl, it is well worth at least for your knowledge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL09AYVp1cw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDvHKL34Fwk
Dear Bas,
Thanks for your gem of a compliment.
The CV19 Pandemic has been turned into a money-making opportunity not only in Sri Lanka but all over the World.
Mr Dhammika bandara, who claims ‘divine’ assistance is only a cog in the wheel.
The big fish, out to grab to poor man’s money, are looming !!!
Okay,
I slightly agree with you for some points : as an economic agent’s behavior , in every part of the world , money-making, as you termed it, could be observed , ‘to a certain degree only’. In Sri Lanka more than money-making people wanted to emerge as big people at this time. You remember some people argue Lord Buddha was born in Sri Lanka and some mythical fictions about wooded flights of king Rawana and so on and so forth. My point is that is what happened in this case. Even scholars in Sri Lanka tend to claim more credits to our history without proofs. In turn the other countries have also good histories in countries such as Peru, Ethiopia and European countries.
It is normal that Mr.Dammika Bandara claims so called divined knowledge given to him by Kali Amma when compared with university researchers once claimed that Buddha in crown ( pending Lord Maithree Buddha) conveyed the massage of root cause of chronical kidney disease.
To be honest, I don’t see any party interested in money-making was behind Dammika Bandara -but the government politicians as they never wanted to see their failure.