Due to the severe shortage of nurses in government hospitals throughout the island Intensive Care Units(ICU) of most of the hospitals have already shut down and functioning of specialized units and wards got paralyzed according to Government Nursing Officers Union.around 2 ICU's in neuro surgical unit attach to Colombo National Hospital have shut down already due to the shortage ,union has said.on another 6 ICU's of the same neuro surgical unit only 19 beds out of 66 total beds there are functioning due to the shortage of nurses a spokesman of nurses union has said.
There's a shortage of 25,000 nurses in government hospitals at present but health ministry has not taken any steps to do away with the shortage the nurses union spokesman has stressed.even 2500 youth selected for nurses training last year still not recruit to nurses training colleges due to poor planning of the health ministry officials he has further said.
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