Tuesday, February 8, 2022

Island Wide Strike Of Health Professionals To Be Continued As Talks With Health Minster failed

 The Island wide Continuous Strike launched by 18 categories  of Health Professionals  demanding solutions  for 09 unsolved service issues  will continue as \the Health authorities have failed to provide a concrete solutions for the major issues according to Health Professionals Federation .


During the talks held between the Health Minister Keheliya Rambukwella and the Health Ministry Officials along with the representatives of the Health Professionals Federation which organized the ongoing strike at the Ministry this morning Minister  had promised to provide solutions for 05 issues ,However failed  to provide a time frame for the Cabinet paper due to be submitted to Cabinet regarding solving the salary anomaly created in Health sector  co -convener of the Federation Saman Ratnapriya has stated .

Due to the ongoing strike action many services including issuing of drugs for outdoor clinic patients in OPD ;s of  Government hospitals ,Lab tests ,Radiography tests and Rapid Antigen and PCR tests had been paralyzed according to Hospital sources ,Tens of thousands of Patients island wide are being faced severe difficulties due to this situation  the Sources have added,

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