Sri Lanka, Oct. 31 -- The Government Medical Officers' Association (GMOA) has temporarily called off the island-wide strike that was scheduled to commence at 8.00 a.m. today (31).

Issuing a statement, the GMOA said that the decision to temporarily call off the strike was taken based on the agreements reached during a special discussion held last night (30) between the Minister of Health, Dr. Nalinda Jayatissa, the Director General of Health Services, and the GMOA.

The association stated that it had agreed to suspend the transfers of doctors that the Ministry of Health had attempted to implement arbitrarily, in violation of the accepted methodology, and instead implement the transfers within a specified time frame following the accepted ...