It has been reported that due to the lack of a specialist doctor for the children’s cardiac catheterization unit at the Galle Karapitiya Teaching Hospital, the patients will be transferred to the Colombo Ridgeway Children’s Hospital for related tests. Sri Lanka Latest News
Due to this situation, it is said that the lives of the patients are at risk due to not doing these tests on time.
When asked about this, a senior officer of the Karapitiya Teaching Hospital said that one of the two doctors in the pediatric cardiac catheterization unit left the country and went abroad and the other doctor has now left for training.
The parents of the patients request the relevant authorities to appoint a doctor for the pediatric cardiac catheterization unit of the Karapitiya Teaching Hospital to curb this situation.
