Countrywide disruptions tomorrow unless …

The state-run hospitals were affected in several districts including Colombo when the GMOA (Government Medical Officers’ Association) launched a strike yesterday (13) to pressure the government to revise its new tax regime.

Sources said that some surgeries had been postponed. GMOA sources said that trade union action would continue. Unless the government responded positively to a joint demand made by over 40 trade unions in the public sector, countrywide disruption would take place tomorrow (15), a spokesman for the protesting unions said.