(COLOMBO) – Sri Lankan Government doctors are set to strike on Wednesday to press home a demand for a RS, 35,000 Disturbance, Availability and Transport (DAT) allowance that had been earlier promised by the authorities, a spokesman for the Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) said.
The GMOA states that the decision was reached following information received that the government has decided not to provide the Disturbance, Availability and Transport (DAT) allowance which was increased by Rs. 35,000 from the month of January as previously promised.
Since then, the health sector employees’ trade unions representing a wide range of health sector professionals, including radiology and laboratory technicians, pharmacists and drug compounders, midwives, Public Health Inspectors, and entomology officers have launched strikes on multiple occasions in protest of the government’s decision and demanding an allowance increase for all health sector employees.
