Medicos refute equal status
- Written by Srian Obeyesekere, The Nation.
- Sunday, 12 February 2012 11:30
The Graduates Association of Professional Supplementary to Medicine (GAPSM) alleged that the Health Ministry along with some unions was making unfair overtures to amalgamate 400 university qualified science graduates together with less qualified medical personnel from the scientific service on an equal salary scale.
The GAPSM President Ravi Kumudesh protested that this was grossly unfair and unacceptable by which the university diploma holders were being devalued and victimised by putting lesser qualified scientific service personnel on par with them. “By doing this, the Health Ministry is giving a raw deal to duly qualified degree holders where a section from the scientific service are being put on an equal professional status despite being lesser qualified,” the GAPSM president told The Nation.
Kumudesh added that the GAPSM was awaiting a final word on the matter following the appointment of a cabinet sub committee to go into the matter and study their grievances. Meanwhile, the planned nurses strike by the Samastha Lanka Heda Sangamaya has been called off following a government undertaking to scrap certain irregular salary anomalies enacted under the Salary Anomalies Act 2006 which deprived nurses of their basic dues, according to the president of the Sri Lanka Nurses Federation, Ven. Muruttetuwe Ananda Thera.
The GAPSM President Ravi Kumudesh protested that this was grossly unfair and unacceptable by which the university diploma holders were being devalued and victimised by putting lesser qualified scientific service personnel on par with them. “By doing this, the Health Ministry is giving a raw deal to duly qualified degree holders where a section from the scientific service are being put on an equal professional status despite being lesser qualified,” the GAPSM president told The Nation.
Kumudesh added that the GAPSM was awaiting a final word on the matter following the appointment of a cabinet sub committee to go into the matter and study their grievances. Meanwhile, the planned nurses strike by the Samastha Lanka Heda Sangamaya has been called off following a government undertaking to scrap certain irregular salary anomalies enacted under the Salary Anomalies Act 2006 which deprived nurses of their basic dues, according to the president of the Sri Lanka Nurses Federation, Ven. Muruttetuwe Ananda Thera.
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