Doctors to go on island-wide strike today
Posted by ONLANKA Newsroom on May 11, 2012 - 10:08 am
All government doctors will launch an island-wide strike today from 8am onwards demanding the transport allowance agreed in 2008. All doctors are expected to join the strike with the exception of the Accident Service, Castle hospital, Lady Ridgeway Hospital, De Soysa Hospital and the Cancer Hospital, Maharagama.
Courtesy: Ada Derana
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It is a total shame that doctors who received free education right up to the university, unlike in other countries, have failed to serve their Mother Lanka. They have turned out to be greedy and ungrateful. They have betrayed their Hypocratic oath. Shame on you! If they go on strike they should be forced to pay back all the costs of their university education to become doctors. Infact such strikes by all Emergency Services should be made illegal by an Act of Parliament. Their Unions should be punished by Court by stiff pernalties.
The “great socialists” collect money from public for sabotage work while be in campus.
And they suck the blood of pople after getting the job..!
We need to start many private but high quality medical collages in the country. Every advance level student who get 3 passes are capable of being a doctor after following a well designed medical degree.