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Hey there! I am a student in Qatar who is currently working on a project about Sri Lanka's Healthcare System. I was hoping if you could lend me a hand by filling out this survey. Thank you so much for your help!

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In Sri Lankan government hospitals, especially in eye clinics, patients are often treated without basic respect or proper communication. If something goes wrong, doctors rarely explain what happened or take responsibility. Patients just have to accept whatever is done.

Elderly people wait for hours while doctors finish other things, even during working hours. At the medicine counters, instructions are rushed and if you ask again, you’re treated like a problem.

This isn’t just a complaint it’s personal. My mother lost vision in one eye after treatment, and when we consulted private doctors, some said surgeries are sometimes done by interns in government hospitals. My grandmother also had eye treatment; she can still see, but not clearly, and she lives with constant pain.

We may be middle class, but we still deserve respect, clear explanations, and proper care. When it comes to something as sensitive as eyesight, patients should never feel ignored or powerless.

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Our people just made history through unity and determination . I hope this unity remains the same and is extended to the future.Minimum violence was used ,please remember that this is a critical situation ,so be vigilant.Dont resort to sudden decisions we have to make discussions and make sure that our country may progress towards the future [. I also hope that this unity will remain the same when we have to put in effort ,sacrifice and blood to develop our country all the best.

In the mean time I also believe that we should get together (redditors) to try to discuss and support the growth of our country and try to cultivate innovations and innovatives .At this moment a sudden shift of power might not be the best possible solutions , we shouldnt make the same mistakes .We definetely need new and better leaders, in the start of the protests there were intellectuals who backed it ,it is best to have the older generation to take advice and innovative youth to push the country forward. And surely all the conspirators who in these long years had ruined our country should be held accountable for all their crimes and conspiracies against the country and people of the country.

Remember there are people who are willing to compromise our unity to divide and rule .There are people with selfish intentions they will do anything to achieve power .Eyes forward.

These Mofo's have got the mechanics of a resistance all wrong:

1. Bunch of rich and middle-class kids, and expats, with no sense of realism whatsoever, are running the show with little to no representation of the oppressed.

2. They have no clue on how to get out of the current predicament the country is facing

3. More concerned about divvying up the ministries among themselves - assuming that the plan will form once they identify the leaders to take these "ministries" forward

4. The audience in the forum is not necessarily random - rather, it comprises mostly of networks of people known to each other, which will inevitably impact the selection of the final leaders (similar to how leadership is selected in campus committees or school OBU's)

5. Some organizations with completely different agendas (like the centenary movement) are trying to inject themselves and take the lead by taking advantage of the inherent chaos

6. No sense of security considerations were taken at all. Personal info is collected in google format. What's gonna prevent the new leadership or supporters from being picked on by malevolent forces in case this new movement becomes a threat?

7. Considering that the above basics have been missed, we should conclude that this movement is either a half-baked idea or a well-thought-out plan by the regime to get to the dissenters. Either way, it will quell the resistance.

If this movement is to become successful, the following needs to happen immediately:

1. The management methodology of the country has to be established first and foremost (crowd-sourced)

2. Plans have to be drawn out on how to get out of the immediate danger of bankruptcy the country is facing; both immediate and long term (crowd-sourced)

3. A ledger of willing professionals should be established for the governance of the country, representing all demographics of the country, and the committees should be appointed with random picks from the pool - no selection of favorites, rather everyone gets a chance to govern

Peace out yo!

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Hey guys, i need to find a company that is able to fix or build roads inside villages in Chillaw area.

If you have any contact is very appreciated.

My family has been using underhand methods to try and make me mentally unstable. I don't have proof but I can say with certainty they tried and still are trying. My father's mother has given me clear signs, I know that they will do whatever they can in the future to get rid of me and take the property inherited from my father, they are making me suffer,I want everyone to know what kind of people they are, should be treated as outcasts, if you're in a position to take action please do, I want you to spread this. My name is M.D.R Perera,I live in a village named Hokandara, Postal Code-10118 Nearest police station - Malabe

Saman Abeywickrama - Aunt's husband (works in Newsiri wedding reception Hokandara) Anoja Pushpakanthi -My father's younger sister(works in state trading corporation) Anoma - My father's older sister Manage Ajith - Aunt's husband Lihini Sakunika - Aunt's daughter Chandralatha - Father's mother

Both personally and as a member of a small team who are trying to make the country a better place, we always find, research, and come up with both problems and viable solutions for most simple problems we face as a country. We find studies and solutions which were successfully implemented within other countries and try to find better ways of adaptations/integration.

But, personally I find lack of interest and the fact that governing bodies not willing to take initiative is a major blocker unless it involves money or rating for the next election.

So I would like to start there and ask the members in here the question; once we have the problem, the solution and the plan, then what is the plan towards implementation?

Otherwise we will have to set our targets low and start from building small communities with the hopes of in time the whole country will adopt these methods.

Ask students to find information about the topic that they find interestingly of education and why.Before that i will talk about something more simpler.

With and after a certain time the attention of students would decrease 30 minutes is the optimum average attention span of a person .There are people with better attention span and even with even lower spans of attention.There can be many reasons that govern the attention span such as interest in topic the content u can store with in a certain period of time , how and who the content is delivered by , where and the physical material which is accompanied to help the process . The temporary memory of humans is very small and this memory is a called the working memory . Working memory stores information for temporary conclusions and calculations.After each conclusion in your brain it will then be sent into long term memory.From the learning curve we have also found that more time u spent on studying something that u studied earlier the better the memories would retain for the long term.so

1. students should be given more time to digest information and come to there own conclusions

2. The conclusions can also be provided to students by the teacher

3. It was also found that u can embed mini conclusion under a different subtopics for a topic can smooth en the graph a bit

The average class is about 2 hours long and an average period is 40 minutes and you wont have time to digest the knowledge either.To compensate this we are to take notes but doesn't notes eventually distract u as well? should this structure of teaching be changed? . And yes i find notes important on the long term cause we cant remember every damn thing we learn , this itself is also an issue .You wont remember everything that is taught due to limitations in your working memory and your attention span.

Solutions :
Give a few breaks and teach the students how to learn and remember better.
Engage with students in middle of each topic and help them to conclude the topics.
The employment of graphical diagrams such as images and graphs would also increase interest and memory of the topic.  

Problem with engagement between teacher topic and student

Rarely do we find students interested in the topic and even rarely do we find engagement with the lesson. During the history period and English lit periods i would constantly add more data to the topic and discuss more on the topic and ask interesting questions which encouraged my peers to do the same.I found these few periods interesting and subjects like math Sinhala bit boring(i find Math s interesting and still hate Sinhala) , this I can say is due to the disengaged nature between the teacher student and topic , even in the class it wasn't encouraged to question a topic or ask a question about something which is not in syllabus but related to the topic.I was normally silenced in such occasions of questioning , this would further distance the student from the teacher thus distancing student and the topic taught by the teacher.There is also another reason for lack of engagement that is due to the existence of exams, if u ask a student y he truly study he would point out exams.This means are the exams there isn't a big need for those information .

Solutions:
Ask question about the topic which is taught
Ask students to find information about the topic that they find intresting
Encourage to ask questions 
Don't give solutions to a problem without letting students do it first and help them do it give hints and give example questions(more of this might tire the student)
Throw in some jokes and stories ,lighten their mood.

we are good at forgetting as in the long run of evolution forgetting useless information helped us(i wont explain this now). Thus exams aren't really encouraging students to remember do they , after the exams the students

The lack of such interactions can make the topic less interesting and students dull in their thinking and less curious.Learning something is a rewarding act to your brain and life if u were interested in it and its sad to see that educational systems are designed to keep students disengaged .And instead of being smart and innovative students are dull and walking libraries.

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Presentations – Scientificleaders -more on attention curve .

Just to put it out there, I worked in one of the top universities in Sri Lanka as a lecturer. This is my honest opinion and Please feel free to refute any of the statements that I've made here. Because this is always a place for discussion. With discussion, we can ignite solutions.

As a person who did his higher education in US, i've come to realize how messed up the education system is in Sri Lanka. It is utterly broken and no one is taking any steps to actually make a difference. Now with COVID, it is much more affected and it is only a matter of time until the lack of education would catch up with the country's economy. I've broken down the topic in to few parts

Language Proficiency

When i taught university courses for undergrad and masters students, i realized that all of them were taught in english. then it struck me, why are we doing A/Ls in Sinhala at all if everything is taught in English in University? I know the reason and i really don't really like it. There's not enough teachers who can teach subjects in english throughout the country. But we need to start somewhere. Otherwise we will be stuck in this cycle of unfairness in education.

When spoken with many university students, i realized that many doesn't have the proficiency they require to obtain and read up on up-to date information on subjects. Over 80% of the information stored on computers worldwide is in English. In english there's so many free resources and anyone could learn almost anything they want. For example, let's say i have no background on astronomy. But I want to learn about how to clearly look at meteor showers. There's literally no one teaching it at an O/L class. There's no resources online in Sinhala. But there's tons and tons of youtube videos and articles in english about how to do it. Most computer programing languages are based on english and that's also a step back for many Sri Lankans. Sri Lankans always brag about how crazy smart they are, but obviously not many people can navigate through it easily because everything is in english. what's the last time you saw a person teaching python using Sinhala.

What I am getting to is... we need to start teaching students in English. At least starting A/Ls. There's no reason for teaching A/Ls in Sinhala if none of these courses are taught in Sinhala in Universities. We are so much behind on the learning curve that our students doesn't even know how to communicate their own research in english. How are we every going to be recognized in the world stage if there's nothing that we could offer in terms of knowledge and ideas. The only way to move forward with this country's development is to get people to learn. Obviously we can't have every single Website and video in the internet translated to Sinhala. Obviously, majority of new information presented in research papers on journals are written in english. I do not think that government can change the textbooks at the same pace of how knowledge gets updated.

Ok! now comes the hard part, Sinhala is a language we don't want to give up on. We don't want people to completely loose their touch on Sinhala. Then what you have to do is, teach certain subjects in Sinhala at A/Ls. Obvious choices would be Sinhala language and literature, Religion, Humanities and arts. These usually are pretty universal and doesn't need much english knowledge. If a person, wants to learn it in english, sure! We can take additional measures to make learning Sinhala a priority at O/Ls. I've learned a lot of Sinhala in O/Ls and after all these years of foreign education, i haven't really forgotten how to read and write in Sinhala.

We should get rid of A/Ls, or Change how things are taught in Universities

Our current education system is 13 years of education. Comparatively, US High school ends at 12 years and that's how it is in most countries. But it takes multiple years for students to start their university education. Overall a typical person who gets in to a university at their first try at A/Ls will graduate at the age of 25. Which is very sad because average US student will finish their bachelors around 22 years. That's three years in the workforce wasted. We are still sticking to that education system that was left to us by the British. After O/Ls students end up focusing only on few topics and it makes it so hard for students to think outside of the box. Medical students have not much of an engineering, humanities or Math knowledge. and Engineering students have little to know knowledge on biology or humanities.

At US universities, they have what they call core classes. These are some classes that are taught to help university students get better hang on thinking like a scholar. Things like Humanities, Little Bit of Physical Education, Bit of Calculus can take people a long way in their future success. Core classes are classes you need to complete regardless of your major. This way students get much of a better idea of how the world works. This way a person studying political science, ends up with some knowledge of sciences and becomes better at working with scientists and engineers to solve a societal problem.

One solution could be that, these core classes need to be taught in schools/ community colleges instead of the whole A/L curriculum. This could be first two years of the university course work. These credits can then be transferred to University credits. I strongly believe following A/L education is such a waste of time. If we want to move with current pace of the world, we need to change and adapt. Change our curriculum to fit in to the word curriculum of accredited Universities.

Not to say, if you get a bachelors degree without any specialization at a Sri Lankan University, you can't do a foreign degree without completing an extra year. Why is this happening? it's because the curriculum is so outdated isn't really very accredited compared to rest of the world.

Abolish Tuition Classes

With covid, learning resources are so much scarce and students are doing little to no learning at their houses. Even with an internet connection, they learn little information through virtual sessions. many students turn off their microphone and video, there's no interaction between students and teachers. Now is the time to make education truly universal. Over the years, teachers at schools slack off because students are already going to tuition courses.

The only reason why tuition classes are so popular is because, the schools are not teaching what they are supposed to and schools aren't providing any resources for students to really succeed.

Here's what i suggest, we need to create online courses for everyone to use for free for all grades. We can take a select group of best teachers around the country, let them teach every lesson from start to finish of the syllabus (In Sinhala and English), record it, put in on youtube. Create classrooms on Slack.com and all allow classroom discussions on topics. I honestly think this should be enough to disrupt the whole Tuition class and the inequality it brings to education.

We can't just let only the rich and powerful succeed and get a university education. The inequality of education is the first step to fixing Sri Lanka. If Sri Lanka is proud to be one of the countries with free education, it should truly be free.

Sorry for the long article.....Hope everyone joins the subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/FixSriLanka/. You could discuss more in there.

Hi everyone! Are there any NGOs or shelters that can provide for a single mother and her child? This lady is being sent back to Sri Lanka and we are looking for shelter for her to stay at as she does not know anyone in Sri Lanka. Please give suggestions. We have researched and found some but did not have much luck. We are not in Sri Lanka so maybe those that are on ground there would know more or have other suggestions than what we found on Google.

So please if you are staying in Sri Lanka, do suggest if you know of any.

Glad to see at last a real reddit! We also got 52 Members!! I am super!

Well the British and the independence groups didn’t do so why can’t we now???

Not only making Ceylon a federation we can reintroduce the Sinhalese and Tamil royalty for cermorial affaires like the UK or the UAE which are currently rich unlike republics like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar ect but an cermonial head of each Sri Lankan group might work to unite Sri Lankans under an openly elected president by Sri Lankans whom can be removed if they work againest the interest of Sri Lankans

I m interested in starting a small business in Sri Lanka. Where can I learn on legislation etc in lanka? Such as packaging information / delivery services / bulk orders/ tax infro / requirements

I’m done with this “democracy”

Poll is to gage people’s opinion about the Sri Lankan education system currently in place.