Health officials have been blamed for endangering the lives of health workers who are pregnant without taking steps to prevent coronary heart disease.
The country’s leading nursing association says that the relief given to pregnant women working in the public service not to report for duty during the epidemic period has not been given to the health staff so far.
Saman Ratnapriya, President of the Government Nursing Officers Association and a former Member of Parliament for the United National Party, made this allegation at a media briefing held in Colombo over the weekend.