The nurses’ strike also disrupted the Covid vaccination program in the Western Province today.
The nurses’ strike had disrupted the program at 45 hospitals in the Western Province, which had planned to administer covid vaccines to seniors over the age of 60.
Meanwhile, a group of people who had come to the Ragama Teaching Hospital and several others to receive vaccinations had to go home empty handed, health sources said.
It is reported that many people were present at the injection centers situated away from the hospitals in the Colombo district and there was not even a proper distance between them.
It is also reported that many people had to spend a lot of time in the same place because giving the second dose of CoviShield vaccine to people over 70 years of age, giving the first dose of Sinopharm vaccine to people over 60 years of age and giving second dose of Sinopharm to other people were arranged in the same center.
