The Hon. (Dr.) Nalinda Jayathissa - Minister of Health and Mass Media
The Minister acknowledged serious health-sector staffing shortages at all levels, attributing them to both insufficient personnel and distribution problems. He stated that staff are being redeployed to critical locations and that nursing cohorts will be recruited in the first quarter to help address hospital-level shortages.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 You are correct. There is a serious staffing problem at all levels, partly due to insufficient numbers and also due to distribution issues. We are redeploying to critical locations. As I stated, we will recruit the nursing cohorts in the first quarter, which will significantly address hospital-level issues.
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- Hansard, Thursday, 9 January 2025 ·No. 1738229262040729 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. (Dr.) Nalinda Jayathissa - Minister of Health and Mass Media. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 9 January 2025. No. 1738229262040729. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/23678