CP doctors on 24-hr token strike

19 July 2013 04:27 am

Doctors at all government Hospitals in the Central Province have launched a twenty-four-hour token strike from this morning, GMOA spokesman Dr. Naveen de Soysa said.

Dr. de Soysa told Daily Mirror Online that the Central Province Governor Tikiri Kobbekaduwa had insulted the doctors at a review on maternity and child care held in Nuwara Eliya and disrupted the review which is held once every three months.

He said GMOA would decide further action by this evening depending on the progress and said the emergency services would not be affect due to the strike.(Ajith Siriwardana)