A number of healthcare professionals have decided to launch a continuous trade union action demanding solutions to seven basic demands, including their opposition to maintaining the service of professional graduates at the diploma level.
The Federation of Health Professionals says that nurses, paramedics and paramedical health professionals, including medical laboratory scientists, will continue to take trade union action from tomorrow.
“Due to the failure of the Minister of Health, the Minister of Finance or higher government authorities to provide solutions to the problems of health professionals, it has been decided to embark on a continuous trade union action from tomorrow (08/12/2021).”
Ravi Kumudesh, President of the Federation of Health Professionals and the Joint Federation of Paramedical Professionals, says that as a first step, all paramedics, nurses and paramedics in all hospitals and health institutions in the North Western Province will be on strike on Wednesday, December 8, without reporting to work. That is held.
A similar trade union action is planned for all hospitals in the Central Province on Thursday, December 9th.
Ravi Kumudesh further emphasized that the series of protests would be launched in all provinces in this manner and that they would eventually resort to a continuous island-wide strike and abstain from service until the authorities’ eyes and ears.
Instead of eliminating the salary disparity of health professionals, Ranuk’s salary recommendations, which had been resolved to some extent or another, were arbitrarily stopped, the service of professional graduates was further maintained at the diploma level, non-payment of clients’ debts, the use of unnecessary equipment and chemicals The strike action is pending the resolution of seven fundamental demands, such as wasting large sums of money, allowing the health service to collapse, neglecting the public interest without controlling drug and health supply prices, and ignoring the needs of non-medical health professionals in the health administration. Ravi Kumudesh, Chairman of the Federation of Health Professionals and the Joint Federation of Paramedical Professionals, said in a statement that the move is expected to continue.