It is no surprise that ordinary people behave irresponsibly when some members of the noble profession behave idiotically! I do not blame anyone who has come to this inevitable conclusion after the
faux-pas in Gampola Hospital. The idiotic behaviour of some doctors have not only brought our profession into disrepute but also inconvenienced the public; perhaps, endangered people’s lives by causing the closure of some services and, thereby, causing patients to travel far for treatment during a raging epidemic.
Whilst the many members of the medical profession fighting to save lives and controlling the epidemic are too busy to communicate with media personnel, others who are partly ‘released’ for trade union activities have ample time and are in the news all the time. At a time when the public expects them to cooperate with the government to tackle a grave public health emergency, they are busy picking holes in everything, never coming up with solutions. Further, spokesperso
This is the front page of The Indian Express published on December 11, 1980.
The Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev has proposed a five point doctrine of peace and security for the countries of the Persian Gulf. The doctrine calls for five mutual obligations. Not to set up military bases in the Persian Gulf area and adjacent islands and not to deploy nuclear or any other weapons of mass destruction there. Not to use or threaten to use force against the countries of the region and not to interfere in their internal affairs. To respect the status of non-alignment of the countries of the Persian Gulf and not to draw them into military groupings. To respect the sovereign rights of the states of the area to their natural resources. Not to raise any threat or pose any obstacle to normal trade exchanges and the use of sealines for commerce by these countries.