Health workers protested the government’s refusal to offer them permanent contracts at Jaffna Hospital despite working there for 10 years, for a second continuous day in Jaffna.
Protesting outside the offices of the Northern Province Health Minister P Sathiyalingam and Secretary for the Ministry of Health, R Raveendran, the local health workers demanded a reason for not being given permanent post at the hospital over 127 other less experienced volunteers at Jaffna Hospital, reports Uthayan.
Responding to questions posed by the protestors, Mr Raveendran said that the volunteers that were given permanent appointments, were ones that worked for the central government.
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