{"id":221440,"date":"2021-08-06T12:04:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T06:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=221440"},"modified":"2021-08-08T11:47:39","modified_gmt":"2021-08-08T06:17:39","slug":"urgent-open-appeal-to-principal-teacher-trade-unions-the-government-association-of-medical-specialists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/urgent-open-appeal-to-principal-teacher-trade-unions-the-government-association-of-medical-specialists\/","title":{"rendered":"Urgent Open Appeal To Principal &#038; Teacher Trade Unions &#038; The Government: Association Of Medical Specialists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">We, the <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Association+of+Medical+Specialists\">Association of Medical Specialists<\/a><\/span> as a professional trade union respect and salute your long unattended and neglected demands your membership unitedly pressing the government to resolve.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">No educated person will be able to put a price tag on your sacrifices to keep children&#8217;s hopes alive by engaging in online education with virtually no state patronage or incentives.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Teachers-protest-Nuwar-Eliya.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-221441\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Teachers-protest-Nuwar-Eliya.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"899\" height=\"674\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Teachers-protest-Nuwar-Eliya.jpeg 960w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Teachers-protest-Nuwar-Eliya-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Teachers-protest-Nuwar-Eliya-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Teachers-protest-Nuwar-Eliya-800x600.jpeg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 899px) 100vw, 899px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">We as teachers involved in medical education, agree and endorse your right to engage in trade union activities unreservedly. We blame present and past political authorities for neglecting your very reasonable claims. We are sad to note the rigid approach of the present government which has led to current stale mate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">As a responsible, educated and mostly apolitical force of the society, we plead with respect to focus on surging <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Covid-19\">Covid-19<\/a><\/span> infections with the deadly Delta variant claiming the major share. With ever surging numbers of Covid-19 cases, we all should be more considerate of ordinary citizens than politicians in a more pragmatic approach. If the pandemic reaches catastrophic levels (we think it is already) our crafty politicians may even frame teachers as solely responsible for generating &#8220;Delta clusters&#8221; and we sense that they have already started working on this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Therefore, as a professional organization we urge and plead <b>all organisations of teaching fraternity<\/b> to temporarily suspend their protest campaign purely for the safety and health of our nation in the middle of this deadly pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Further, we request from the government to make sure that all the principals and teachers get both doses of COVID-19 vaccine and allow adequate time to develop their immunity before they resume their school activities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Finally, we would like to request from HE the President and the government to kindly consider the reasonable demands of Principals and teachers in a favorable manner and initiate a dialogue at the highest level to resolve this crisis. We also hope that the government will take all possible measures to curtail all forms of ceremonies and other public gatherings and reimpose restrictions on public movements to ease the disastrous overcrowding of public and private hospitals and to bring down the escalating daily death rates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Thank you. <\/span><span class=\"s2\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Dr LakKumar Fernando<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>Dr R Gnanasekeram<br \/>\nPresident-AMS<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>General Secretary-AMS<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":221441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2186,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-featured-news","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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