Sri Lanka, June 10 -- The All Ceylon Health Trade Union Federation says it has decided to resort to the scheduled strike action as the discussions held with Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi were unfruitful.

The association said their major demands, except the request to make assistant health workers permanent employees, were not met with acceptable solutions during the meeting held on Wednesday (June 09).

Accordingly, all trade unions of the Health Trade Union Federation have unanimously agreed to go ahead with the strike action which was initially scheduled to begin tomorrow (June 11).

However, emergency and essential services will be provided to coronavirus-infected persons despite the strike action, the association noted.

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