You take this for granted, not even the US has implemented universal healthcare.
I don’t take it for granted. But it is not an achievement it is the way things were in SL since 60s. However the quality of free health care has deteriorated to such a level that celebration is questionable. If not for the private hospitals in SL the free health care system would crash being unable to meet the demand.
I don’t know whether you’ve been to any gov hospitals at all. Now many of these institutions lack funding from the gov and inefficiency, mismanagement has infected them. If you check many patients who go to gov hospitals which are supposed to offer healthcare at no cost, ask patients to buy the medicines from nearby pharmacies and come. This is the state of gov hospitals in colombo barring few.
Many hospitals (even in colombo) lack enough medicines and even hospital beds, where two patients would have to share one and some on the floor. This is the state of gov hospitals in colombo and in out stations some hospitals have only Panadol. For whatever illness it is the only medicine hospitals give.
The reason US doesn’t have free healthcare is they have a different policy, not because they can’t. If you think health care in SL is without any problems and we are close to 1st world level healthcare you are living in a fool’s paradise!. There are a lot of problems in health care in SL it is the time of finding remedies for them not the time for celebration! Cos only fools do that!
The reason many gov and gov supporters show health care as if it is a big achievements is because they can sweep all the problems in healthcare under the carpet without taking actions.
Sri Lanka has some wonderful achievements although it obviously has a long way to go. This thread is meant for highlighting those achievements, no need to drag it down unnecessarily.
I hardly think SL has WONDERFUL achievements though there are good ones. But you don’t sound as “obviously it has a long way to go” in your posts but ordinary gov propaganda to hoodwink the public. Taking loans at high interest rates and building roads is not an achievement. Achievement is facilitating development using them like improving manufacturing or industry. I hardly see gov policies on that.
Of course no need to drag it down but it needs to give the fellow SLns a reality check!
If you want to put forward stuff about corruption you should post some statistics, because they are objective compared to anecdotes and opinions. There is corruption in Sri Lanka, but it is not as bad as most places in the world.
First of all you don’t need statistics for that, simply living in SL is enough! It is funny when a Lankan living in SL asks for statistics to prove corruption in SL. To start with honey, refer COPE reports in the previous years, that will give you an understanding about corruption in SL. (Do you know what COPE reports are?)
Corruption in SL is not an opinion but a fact! Look what happened to Sri Lanka cricket! Petroleum corp, Electricity board, if you are a rational man with all your sensors working you will know!
Do you know ministers (everyone from TOP) ask for commission? Do you know that foreign investors are reluctant to come to SL because ministers ask for a commission all the time?
Just check SL cricket, which is the MOST corrupted institute in SL according to a COPE report. Also check Sri Lankan airlines and Mihin air!
SL lose at least 2% in its GDP growth rate due to corruption. Tell me a SINGLE incident in SL where a minister or top level official has been punished for corruption? Not the little ones who go to prison who give bribes of 100-1000 to policemen and principals. Tell me a single incident of such a case!
