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PHIs in Gampaha withdraw threat to stop work
In a different development, the Gampaha Public Health Inspectors (PHIs) who threatened to stop work after Friday, alleging that instructions with regard to vaccination were being changed often, withdrew the threat on Saturday after getting proper instructions from the Health Ministry.
“The vaccination programme has been initiated in selected GN divisions but we have not been informed by the health authorities about the ages of the people who should be vaccinated,” claimed the Gampaha District’s PHIs’ Chairman and Secretary, S.R.M.S.R. Samaradiwakara and H.K.C. Padmalal, in a letter to the Western Province Director of Health Services on Friday.
“First we vaccinated those over 30 years of age. Then we were told to vaccinate those over 60. Once again, through a telephone call, we were informed that the age-group of those to be vaccinated has been changed and the scheduled dates of the vaccination programme were in disarray,” they said.
They added that until they receive written instructions from the Secretary of Health, the PHIs involved in the vaccination programme in the district would stop work after Friday (February 26).