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  • Ten complaints from GMOA
    The Government Medical Officers' Association (GMOA) has handed in ten complaints to the Presidential Commission appointed to investigate into malpractices and corruption that...
  • Construction to be speeded up
    Health Minister Dr. Rajitha Senaratne has directed that the construction work on stroke units at 10 main state hospitals is to be speeded up, a Health Ministry spokesman said...
  • Historical documents say it all – Emeritus Professor T.G. Kulatunga
    Emeritus Professor T.G. Kulatunga who had served the Sri Jayewardenepura University from 1967 to 2008, said the Mannar mass grave was the result of a massacre committed by...
  • Health Science, a must for O/Ls from 2022
    Health Science will be a compulsory subject for the G.C.E. Ordinary Level Examination from 2022, Health Minister Dr. Rajitha Senaratne said.Speaking at a press conference at...
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  • Food colour coding for biscuits, sweetmeats from April 2
    Food colour coding (Traffic light system) will be introduced for solid food, especially biscuits, sweetmeats, etc will be introduced by the Health Ministry from April 2, Health Minister Dr. Rajitha...
  • GMOA, 17 grades demand vehicle permits
    The Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) in a letter to President Maithripala Sirisena said it will strike if its demands are not met in two weeks.The GMOA lamented that the Budget 2019...
  • Cabinet nod to ban sale of tobacco products at state institutions
    Cabinet approval has been granted to issue a circular banning the use and sale of all products based on arecanut, tobacco and betel inside state institutions and their premises, a Health Ministry...
  • Cabinet approves Rs. 1,573 mn for drugs
    Cabinet approval has been granted to import drugs and injections worth Rs. 1,573 million, required for haemophilia, diabetes and heart disease, a Health Ministry spokesman said.According to the...
  • Wasantha Alwis
    ‘Politician misleading SAITM graduates’
    The Parents Union of the State Medical Students said yesterday it had informed the President of a certain politician’s efforts to mislead a few former SAITM students to gain political advantage, the...
  • One in four local men smokes
    One in four Sri Lankan men or 26 percent of local men smoke, statistics show, National Authority on Tobacco and Alcohol (NATA) Chairman Dr. Palitha Abeykoon said.He was speaking at the launch of the...
  • GMOA warns of union action
    The Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) has decided to resort to islandwide trade union action against the non-inclusion of any budget proposal submitted, GMOA Secretary Dr. Haritha...
  • The SLAF transports a donor's liver to the Kandy General Hospital. Pictures by Ruwan Meegammana
    SLAF saves lives with organ transport
    Sometimes a person’s organs stop functioning for various reasons. While such incidents are deadly for some people, they also offer another person or persons a chance to live.But, everything depends...
  • NCDs, major cause of deaths in Sri Lanka
    Seventy-five (75) percent of the total deaths in Sri Lanka each year are due to non-communicable diseases (NCDs), Consultant Community Physician at the NCD Unit of the Health Ministry Dr. Kapila...
  • NCD phone survey at end March
    People will receive a telephone call from 1995 (only) to their mobile phones by the end of this month or early next month. The Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) Control Unit of the Health Ministry...
  • Japan to provide Rs. 20 bn for health sector
    The Japanese government will provide Rs. 20 billion for the health sector in Sri Lanka, a Health Ministry spokesman said.Japanese Ambassador Akira Sugiyama had promised to provide the funds during a...
  • ‘Serious congenital defects in 30 pc of babies’
    Annually 5,800 babies are born with birth defects in Sri Lanka, Consultant Community Physician at the Health Ministry’s Family Health Bureau and Sri Lanka Medical Association (SLMA) Secretary Dr....