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Ministry condemns Health Union strike: Clerks found fault with

The Health care and Nutrition Ministry yesterday condemned the strike launched by a single health union over the non-payment of increased salaries to health staff by certain provincial councils as totally unfair and illegal and said the Ministry had requested the Prime Minister to initiate stern action against clerks in the health sector who had failed to include the salary increment announced in the health circular to health staff in their July salary.

The Ministry in a press release said the problem relating to the payment of enhanced salaries to health staff coming under provincial councils was solved at a meeting chaired by the Prime Minister and attended by Provincial Governors and all relevant parties at Temple Trees Colombo on July 15.

At this meeting it was agreed that the salary increment should be paid by every provincial council to the identified health staff with the July salary and necessary instructions issued in this regard.

An investigation made by the Ministry revealed that the governors had issued the necessary orders to advice their respective provincial councils for the payment of this salary increment.

But certain health clerks who are members of Unions trying to incite other health workers to participate in strikes had deliberately neglected their duties in adding this salary increment to the July pay thereby disrupting the computation of salaries.

The ministry has now brought this situation to the notice of the Prime Minister and the Prime Minister's Secretary had requested them to initiate stern action against the culprits responsible for creating this situation. The release said the ministry while expressing its concern against self-seeking trade unions which tried to hold the lives of innocent patients to ransom had called upon all health staff not to fall prey to the machinations of such unjust unions.

The ministry is now co-ordinating with provincial councils to pay the enhanced salaries to their health staff immediately and regretted the inconvenience caused to health employees due to the arbitrary actions of certain health clerks.

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