The Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA) has actually decided to launch an island-wide strike today (12) in protest versus the sexual attack of a female physician on duty at the Anuradhapura Teaching Hospital.The token strike, is scheduled to start at 8.00 a.m., and will continue for 24 hours until 8.00 a.m.
tomorrow (13 ).
However, the GMOA has actually ensured that emergency treatment services will stay unaffected.The association even more specified that the strike will not be implemented at childrens healthcare facilities, maternity medical facilities, kidney treatment units, the National Institute of Mental Health, or Tri-Forces medical facilities, making sure that critical health care services continue uninterrupted.Doctors and staff at the Anuradhapura Teaching Hospital started a strike last morning (11) requiring the instant arrest of the person who apparently sexually assaulted a female medical professional at the hospitals dormitory for medical officers last night (10 ).
According to Ada Derana reporter, the victim, a 32-year-old female physician, had returned to her quarters after finishing her responsibilities that evening.
Between 6:30 p.m.
and 7:00 p.m., an unidentified enemy allegedly entered the facilities, threatened her with a knife, and sexually assaulted her.The GMOA had actually formerly called on the federal government to take instant actions to collar the suspect accountable before 8.00 a.m.
today (12) and cautioned of trade union action if authorities failed to do so.Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health has actually launched a declaration worrying the supposed sexual attack on a female medical professional of the Anuradhapura Teaching Hospital.The statement further mentions that the Ministry has actually been notified that authorities examinations are currently underway, with a number of authorities teams being deployed to apprehend the suspect.Meanwhile, a group of officials, led by the Director of Medical Services, has actually already been dispatched to the Anuradhapura Teaching Hospital to look into the matter, it said.