Despair over doctors' strike

25 October 2012 06:09 am

Patients waiting at the OPD unit in the Colombo General Hospital this morning despite the 24-hour countrywide strike by the Government doctors. The strike was launched because the government had failed to increase the basic salaries and special allowances of doctors and had not provided a special transport allowance enjoyed by other state sector employees. Pix by Pradeep Pathirana