Eastern Province doctors threaten work stoppage

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Doctors attached to all Government Hospitals in the Eastern Province warned that they will launch a strike after Thursday (26) unless their demands were met.

The Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) said their members, deployed for work in the East, would resort to a work stoppage due to the failure on the part of the authorities concerned to make their overtime payments.

Addressing a press conference, GMOA Secretary Dr. Haritha Aluthge said Eastern Province Governor Rohitha Bogollagama had instructed officials to pay the arrears before the Sinhala-Hindu New Year and to pay the increase in overtime payments by this May.

However, he said the medical officers in the Eastern Province had not received the arrears in overtime payments so far, adding that he had been informed that it had also become an issue to pay the increase in overtime payments in the coming month due to the negligence of the officials.

Furthermore, the Eastern Province Branch Collaboration had informed the GMOA that there were vacancies in key administration positions at several hospitals in the Eastern Province, thus creating even more problems.

As such the Eastern Province Branch Collaboration had informed the GMOA that it would resort to a work stoppage in the entire Eastern Province if the authorities failed to resolve these issues by April 26. (Thilanka Kanakarathna)

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MFSL Tuesday, 24 April 2018 05:52 PM

OMG do these people ever work??? They practice a kind of terrorism not medicine..shame on the GMOA... who have discredited the entire medical profession.

RL Tuesday, 24 April 2018 06:54 PM

Are these guys ever worked???

Jaliya Tuesday, 24 April 2018 06:58 PM

Yeah we know all about you milking the cows ... in the East there are no private hospitals if there were you will find the medical officers busy working in private sector after hours and some of them in between the working hours, burning both ends of the candle. They have taken oath for credibility and hypocrisy among many other good deed. But decided to put the OT above all… I won’t put my life on their hands

Raj Tuesday, 24 April 2018 07:28 PM

These so called Dr.'s must be shouting "STRIKE / WORK STOPPAGE " While sleeping also ...... I am sure all these fellows will end up in "HELL" only

Stinging fish Wednesday, 25 April 2018 01:43 PM

Overtime payment??it's hard to see them in the government hospital even on the duty time.

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