{"id":21850,"date":"2023-09-20T16:26:14","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T10:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=21850"},"modified":"2023-09-23T09:47:51","modified_gmt":"2023-09-23T04:17:51","slug":"shortage-of-doctors-stops-operations-at-hambantota-general-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=21850","title":{"rendered":"Shortage of doctors stops operations at Hambantota General Hospital\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to reports, all surgeries at Hambantota General Hospital have stopped due to the absence of an&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/anesthetist\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">anaesthetist<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As such, the patients needing surgery are referred to Matara General Hospital and Galle General Hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It has been reported recently that 850 doctors of graded rank have left the service between 01.06.2022 and 31.05.2023. Among them, 544 have taken unpaid leave and gone abroad, and 197 doctors have left the service. Meanwhile, it is reported that the anaesthetist of Hambantota General Hospital has also left the service and has now gone abroad.<\/p>\n<div class='saic-wrapper saic-default saic-comments-closed saic-border' style='overflow: hidden;'><div class='saic-wrap-link'><a id='saic-link-21850' class='saic-link saic-icon-link saic-icon-link-true auto-load-true' href='?post_id=21850&amp;comments=0&amp;get=30&amp;order=DESC' title='0 Comments'><i class='saico-comment'><\/i><span>0<\/span> Comments<\/a><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-link--><div id='saic-wrap-commnent-21850' class='saic-wrap-comments' style='display:none;'><div id='saic-wrap-form-21850' class='saic-wrap-form saic-clearfix'><div class='saic-form-avatar'><\/div><div id='saic-container-form-21850' class='saic-container-form saic-no-login'><p>Comments are closed<\/p><\/div><!--.saic-container-form--><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-form--><div id='saic-comment-status-21850'  class='saic-comment-status'><\/div><ul id='saic-container-comment-21850' class='saic-container-comments saic-order-DESC ' data-order='DESC'><\/ul><div class='saic-holder-21850 saic-holder'><\/div><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-comments--><\/div><!--.saic-wrapper-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to reports, all surgeries at Hambantota General Hospital have stopped due to the absence of an&nbsp;anaesthetist. As such, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[106,109,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","category-health","category-smartphones","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21852,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21850\/revisions\/21852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}