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The Government Nursing Officers Association, member of HSTUA, commemorated the International Nurses Day on 12 May 2014 in Colombo by organizing a meeting and a picket to mobilize support to protect the nurses' right to upgrade skills to improve the quality of health services in Sri Lanka.

Saman Rathnapriya, President of Health Services Trade Union Alliance [HSTUA] said that there are concerted efforts made to reduce the quality and quantity of training received by the nurses hitherto, which will have an impact on the public health services in the country. On the commemorative day their union organized the picket to highlight the impending danger to the public.