Sri Lankan Government Doctors are to launch an Island wide one day token strike tomorrow demanding the cancellation of the Post Internship Appointment list prepared by the Health Ministry.According to the Government Medical Officers Association(GMOA) there are irregularities when preparing this list and the list is politically influenzed one.
The Assistant Secretary of the GMOA Dr.Upul Gunasekara said his Union appealed to Health Secretary last weak to cancel this Post Intern List but failed to getting a good response for that.Therefore there is no other option than launching a Doctors strike on this matter he stressed.
All Government Doctors except the Doctors attached to the Accident Service of the Colombo National Hospital.Lady Ridgway Children’s Hospital,Castle Street Maternity,De Soyza Maternity and Cancer Hospital in Colombo will join tomorrow’s strike he urged.The Doctors those Hospitals are not join the Strike due to Humanitarian Grounds he further added.
According to the GMOA Doctors will launch the Strike at 7 a.m tomorrow morning till 7 a.m on wednesday morning.Emergancy Services will functioning as usual during the Strike.
The Post internship List which is subjected to the Doctors Strike is prepared for the 232 Doctors who completed their Internship training in 04th of February this year.These Doctors are recruited to the IDP Camps in the North since last March.
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