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Tuesday, February 8, 2022

ඕනෑම අයෙකුට "ආදරෙයි " කියා පැවසිය හැකි වුවද තම ආදරය වෙනුවෙන් බලා සිටිමින් එය සත්‍ය බව ඔප්පු කිරීමට හැක්කේ අතළොස්සකට පමණකි .(උපුටා ගැනීමකි )

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,

1253 Corona Positives Had Been Reported Today (08)

A total of 1253 Corona Positives had been reported in the country today (08) ,Increasing the total number of Corona Positives that had been reported so far to 621,985 according to Epidemiology Unit .

At the moment 24,265 Corona Positives are being treated at Hospitals ,Quarantine Centers and Under home care system the Unit has stated ,

Another 35 Corona Deaths Had Been Reported Today (08)

Another 35 Corona deaths had been reported in the country today (08) Increasing the total number of Corona deaths reported so far to 15.656 according to Director General Of Health Services (DGHS) .

Accordingly 22 males and 13 females had died due to Corona infection the DGHS has stated ,Out of the deceased 28 were over 60 years of age and 05 were belonged to 30-60 year age group it has been revealed .Two of the deceased were under 30 years old .