One of the pediatric ward of the Anuradhapura Teaching Hospital, which was attached to the University Professor’s Unit, had to be temporarily closed due to the departure of all the three pediatricians who worked there.
Ward 63 of the hospital has been closed and the hospital authorities have given instructions to refer the patients there to wards 24 and 25 and to refer future admissions only to those two wards, according to hospital sources.
In view of the current economic crisis and related conditions, this situation was created at the same time as the professionals of Sri Lanka went abroad in large numbers and a special doctor who commented on this said that the closure of a ward due to the departure of specialist doctors of a leading hospital in the country may be the first step towards its climax. .
