Health unions are awaiting a written assurance for a meeting next Monday before temporarily calling off the strike in the health sector.
Earlier today, all 72 leaders of Health Trade Unions met and agreed to continue the strike until their demands were met. However, shortly thereafter Minister of Health Dr Ramesh Pathirana agreed to meet the unions next Monday at 11 a.m at the Ministry of Health.
The unions are expecting a solution to their demands from the Ministry. President of the Public Health Inspector's Union, Upul Rohana, told Times Online that once written assurance of the meeting is received, they will call off the action.
Public Security Minister Ananda Wijepala told Parliament today that the suspect in the rape of a lady doctor at the Anuradhapura teaching hospital has been identified as an army deserter and he will be apprehended shortly.
Police have arrested the suspect connected to the sexual assault on a female doctor at the Anuradhapura Teaching Hospital today morning in Galnewa.
The Dutch Public Prosecutor suspects two companies of paying bribes in the construction of hospitals in Sri Lanka, according to an investigation by FD, the Dutch financial newspaper.
The Government today tabled in the House the Report of the Commission to Inquiry into the Establishment and Maintenance of Unlawful Places of Detention and Torture Chambers in the Batalanda Housing Scheme.
Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe said today he wholly rejects the Batalanda Commission report and that it was appointed wholly with the intention slinging political mud at him.
Leader of the National People’s Party (NPP) and one time Propaganda Secretary of the JVP Wimal Weerawansa accused the Government of bringing back the “Batalanda Commission” for a media spectacle instead of a genuine concern for those who suffered during the 1988-1990 period.
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