Doctors to launch 24-hour countrywide strike today
The Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) will begin a 24-hour token strike island-wide over several demands from 8 this morning.
GMOA Media Spokesman Dr. Samantha Ananda said that the strike would be launched over eight issues including sub-standard medicine, prevalent scarcity of medicine in government hospitals, problems in the methodology for transferring Doctors and attempts to grant medical doctor appointments to unsuitable persons.
The spokesman said further that the strike would not be implemented at maternity hospitals, children’s hospitals, the Maharagama Apekshaa hospital and specialized units of treatment of kidney patients and hospitals of the three armed forces forces.
However Government Medical Officers’ Forum committee member Dr. Niroshana Premaratna stated that the forum does not support the strike in any way as it was driven by Political motives.
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Emergency services/ accident and emergency departments/ ITU in ALL HOSPITALS should have been spared from strike action to minimise the risk of deaths.
If doctors do not want blood on their hands, they need to strike with provisions in place.
The object is not to risk patients lives’, but usually to disrupt services. It is a fine balancing act, but attempts need to be taken to achieve this. Why re-invent the wheel? Look at the guidelines for doctors striking in other countries e.g. UK.
Patients lives are not put at risk; senior doctors e.g. Consultants oversee wards, whilst junior doctors strike. Emergency services remain intact. Elective surgery is cancelled. These strikes do make an impact, but less lives are compromised.
Doctors, please think of the patients whose lives are in your hands.
It doesn’t matter,
All GMOA members wil be working in private clinics while on strike.
Please go to private clinics with a sackful of LKRs.
That is where our Viyath Maga will take us.
The GMOA are actually Terrorists!