Sri Lanka, March 19 -- Annual transfers of health sector employees in the Western Province are temporarily suspended. Western Province Governor, Air vice Marshal Roshan Gunathilaka, has taken this decision following the request made by Urban Development and Housing Minister Prasanna Ranatunga who met nearly 300 hospital staff and health employees in the Western Province yesterday.

They attended the public day of the Urban Development and Housing Ministry yesterday and presented their facts alleging that the annual health transfers in the Western Province have been done informally without any transparency.

They alleged that these annual transfers were done in an informal manner. Then Minister Ranatunga went to the Western Governor's office...