Teachers, principals urged to call off protests

Several professional bodies and political parties have pleaded the teachers and principals who are currently engaged in a massive protest campaign, to suspend all their protests for the sake of safety and health of the nation in the middle of this dreaded pandemic.

Association of Medical Specialists (AMS) President Dr. Lakkumar Fernando requested the organisations of the teaching fraternity with respect to focus on the marauding spike in Covid-19 infections with the deadly Delta variant claiming the major share.

“With the ever surging numbers of Covid-19 cases and mortalities, we all should be more considerate of ordinary citizens than the politicians in a more pragmatic approach. If the pandemic reaches catastrophic levels (we think it is already on the rampage) our crafty politicians may even frame teachers as solely responsible for generating "Delta clusters" and we sense that they have already started working on this," he said.

Dr. Fernando also urged the President and the government to consider the reasonable demands of Principals and teachers in a favorable manner and initiate a dialogue at the highest level to resolve this crisis.

Meanwhile, Sri Lanka Medical Association has also requested the teachers and principals to temporarily suspend their protest campaign as there is a disrinct possibility of the situation going from bad to worse due to surge in cases of Delta variant in the country. (Sheain Fernandopulle)