Health sector strike to resume on 01 Feb.

Health sector unions would resume their strike on 01 February, President of the Joint Council for Professions of Supplementary Medicine, Ravi Kumudesh, told The Island yesterday (18).

Kumudesh said the decision had been taken by representatives of 72 unions that met on Thursday.

They launched a strike recently against the government’s decision to only increase Disturbance, Availability, and Transport (DAT) allowance of doctors only.

The strike had been suspended on Wednesday morning because they wanted to give some time for the President to solve the problems his Cabinet proposal had created. “But if the president doesn’t solve our problems, we will take action. We have also decided to hold a countrywide protest on 23 January against those who created the recent crisis in the health sector,” Kumudesh said.