Over thirty hospitals in the Northern Province are operating without permanent doctors, the Northern Provincial Council's health minister has said.
Health minister P. Sathiyalingam said that 32 out of 102 hospitals in the Northern Province had no permanent doctors and were functioning with trainee doctors and recalled retired doctors.
The central government has promised a solution to the shortage by December, Mr Sathiyalingam said.
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