Government Nurses And Para Medical Officers To Launch A Two Day Strike On Tomorrow And The Day After In Southern Province

Government Nurses and Para medical officers belonging to 12 categories attached to the Government Hospitals in Southern Province are due to launch a two day token strike on tomorrow(17) and the day after (18) by demanding to pay the suspended Overtime Payments of them prepared according to the increased salary the Joint Confederation of Nurses-Para Medics  has announced.

Accordingly Nurses and Para Medical Officers attache to the Government Hospitals in Galle,Matara and Hambanthota districts belonging to the Southern Province will launch the two day strike from 7 a.m tomorrow to 7 a.m the day after the Joint Confederation has stated.

Although the Health Ministry has instructed the Southern Provincial Authorities to pay the suspended Overtime payments of Nurses and Para medical officers the Provincial authorities are delaying the implementing of  it the joint president of the Confederation Saman Ratnaproya  has stated.