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Monday, May 5, 2014
Patients groan as nurses strike
By Umesh Moramudali
Thousands of patients were inconvenienced as nurses continued their countrywide strike, for the second day, due to a dispute over their demand for midwifery training.
President of the Government Nursing Officers Association (GNOA) Saman Ratnapriya, said the Health Ministry had caved in to pressure from the GMOA, and discontinued the midwifery training which was earlier being given to nursing students.
Nearly 28,000 nurses, attached to 650 hospitals countrywide, launched a strike on 3 May demanding the midwifery training be given to nursing students. Thousands of patients who came for the treatments at the Outdoor Patient Department (OPD) as well as internal patients were inconvenienced due to the strike action. Meanwhile, the Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA) claimed that nurses had locked cupboards in which medical equipment is kept.
Denying those allegations GNOA President Saman Ratnapriya said, all the keys of cupboards were handed over to the hospital directors.
Meanwhile, the Public Service United Nurses' Union (PSUNU) yesterday said they withdrew from the strike. Committee member of the PSUNU Theja Karunaratne said, they had decided to withdraw from strike as they had got a positive response from the Health Ministry.
Commenting on the PSUNU action, Ratnapriya said, it was the GNOA which called the strike and the Health Ministry had not given a proper solution to the issue.
"The Health Ministry had become a cat's paw of the GMOA and the Government Midwifery Services Association (GMSA) and should be responsible for all the inconveniences faced by patients," he added.
By Umesh MoramudaliThousands of patients were inconvenienced as nurses continued their countrywide strike, for the second day, due to a dispute over their demand for midwifery training.
President of the Government Nursing Officers Association (GNOA) Saman Ratnapriya, said the Health Ministry had caved in to pressure from the GMOA, and discontinued the midwifery training which was earlier being given to nursing students.
Nearly 28,000 nurses, attached to 650 hospitals countrywide, launched a strike on 3 May demanding the midwifery training be given to nursing students. Thousands of patients who came for the treatments at the Outdoor Patient Department (OPD) as well as internal patients were inconvenienced due to the strike action. Meanwhile, the Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA) claimed that nurses had locked cupboards in which medical equipment is kept.
Denying those allegations GNOA President Saman Ratnapriya said, all the keys of cupboards were handed over to the hospital directors.
Meanwhile, the Public Service United Nurses' Union (PSUNU) yesterday said they withdrew from the strike. Committee member of the PSUNU Theja Karunaratne said, they had decided to withdraw from strike as they had got a positive response from the Health Ministry.
Commenting on the PSUNU action, Ratnapriya said, it was the GNOA which called the strike and the Health Ministry had not given a proper solution to the issue.
"The Health Ministry had become a cat's paw of the GMOA and the Government Midwifery Services Association (GMSA) and should be responsible for all the inconveniences faced by patients," he added.
