Health Ministry To Recruit Graduate PSM'S To Government Hospitals

The Health Ministry has decided to recruit 197 Professions Supplementary To Medicine(PSM'S) Graduates to Government Hospitals with effect from 01st Of October by solving one of the major demands made by the  Joint Council Of Professions Supplementary To Medicine (JCPSM) .

The appointments of the said graduates who were successfully completed the internship period at government hospitals were handed over to them today(15) at a function held at the Medical Research Institute Auditorium in Colombo.

Meanwhile the Joint Council Of Professions Supplementary To Medicine has welcomed  the Health Ministry's decision to recruiting the PSM Graduates to the government hospitals the first time in history and decided to postpone their executive meeting scheduled to be held today to decide the future trade union action of the PSM's over three service demands .

According to the secretary of the JCPSM ,Saman Jayasekera the said executive meeting has  postponed for a week as the Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena had promised them to take cabinet approval for two other major demands of PSM'S within a week period from today .

Thousands of patients were suffered due to the Island Wide Continuous Strike launched by the PSM'S attach to Government Hospitals two weeks back by demanding solutions for their service demands.