Docs demand a transport allowance
January 11, 2012, 10:01 pm , The Islandby Don Asoka Wijewardena
Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA) demands that the government take immediate action to pay transport allowance to all doctors in the public service.
GMOA Assistant Secretary Dr. Upul Gunasekara addressing the media yesterday in Colombo said that the medical profession had been getting step-motherly treatment, but other professionals such as engineers, accountants and civil servants were getting transport allowances.
Dr. Gunasekera said that more than 120 intern and post-intern doctors had already left the country as doctors were underpaid and denied facilities in Sri Lanka. Those doctors had been appointed to the far-flung places in the North and the East.
A transport allowance for doctors had been approved way back in 2007 by the Salaries and Cadre Commission, Dr. Gunasekera said. Only judicial medical officers were paid the transport allowance at the moment.
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