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Monday, March 18th, 2024
American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) Dr. Sunil J. Wimalawansa, MD, PhD, MBA, DSc, Professor of Medicine, Endocrinology, and Nutrition, will be honored with the 2024 Eugene T. Davidson, MD, Public Service Award by the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE). The award ceremony will occur during the 33rd Annual Scientific & Clinical Congress in […]
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Sunday, March 3rd, 2024
By P.K.Balachandran/Sunday Observer Snake watches as a farmer works in his field in India Colombo, March 3: Bites of venomous snakes cause significant morbidity and mortality in the rural areas of tropical countries. Despite this, until recently, snakebites did not receive the attention they deserved as a public health problem. The main reason for this […]
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Wednesday, February 21st, 2024
Courtesy Adaderana Amidst the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccines emerged as a beacon of hope, offering humanity a vital tool against the deadly virus. However, recent research has introduced a concerning twist to this narrative. Since the onset of the pandemic, approximately 13.5 billion COVID-19 vaccines have been administered worldwide, marking a significant milestone […]
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Sunday, February 11th, 2024
Courtesy Adaderana The National Building Research Organization (NBRO) has warned that the quality of air in parts of the island has dropped further to unhealthy levels. Accordingly, the NBRO highlighted that apart from Nuwara Eliya, the air quality in all other districts is at an unhealthy level, with Colombo, Kandy and Jaffna recording particularly high […]
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Saturday, February 3rd, 2024
Courtesy Times Malta Former health minister detained over fake medicines scandalWorldSri LankaHealth Former Sri Lankan health minister Keheliya Rambukwella is being investigated in connection with the scam. Photo: AFP A Sri Lankan court remanded a senior cabinet minister in custody Saturday over the purchase of fake medicines for state hospitals when he was in charge […]
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Thursday, February 1st, 2024
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Tuesday, January 30th, 2024
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Jan 30 (Daily Mirror) – An air ambulance service between the Maldives and the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) will start on March 1 this year as part of Phase I of the programme, Ports, Shipping and Aviation Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva said. The announcement was made following a special […]
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Thursday, January 25th, 2024
ANNA BJERDE Courtesy Worldbank blogs A recent visit to Sri Lanka took me to the Kopay Divisional Hospital in the Jaffna District in the northern part of the country. For the close to 16,000 people living in the area, this hospital serves as the first point of care. It is also one of the primary […]
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Friday, January 19th, 2024
Courtesy Adaderana The medical officers and nurses of the oncology unit of the Karapitiya Teaching Hospital, together with the patients and residents of the area staged a demonstration on Friday (Jan.19), seeking justice for the senior oncologist arrested over an alleged assault. Dr. S.C.R. Perera, 61, was arrested for purportedly assaulting a female junior staff […]
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Friday, January 19th, 2024
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Friday, January 19th, 2024
Courtesy Hiru News Colombo, January 19, 2024 – The Senior Oncologist at Karapitiya Teaching Hospital, who was recently arrested for an alleged assault, has decided to retire voluntarily. His letter of retirement has been submitted to the Ministry of Health, according to the Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA). The decision to retire comes in the […]
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Wednesday, January 17th, 2024
Courtesy The Hindustan Times This comes after an expert panel verified that the two countries have had consistently high coverage of Hepatitis B vaccine doses. Maldives and Sri Lanka have achieved control over hepatitis B disease, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Wednesday. This comes after an expert panel verified that the two countries […]
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Tuesday, January 16th, 2024
By SHEAIN FERNANDOPULLE Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Jan 16 (Daily Mirror) – Sri Lanka is grappling with a surge in Dengue fever cases, logging a staggering 380 cases per day. Health experts have raised alarm bells as the country battles this alarming spike in mosquito-borne illnesses. The latest data from the Epidemiology Unit, as of […]
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Thursday, January 11th, 2024
Courtesy Hiru News Bottled water contains up to 100 times more tiny pieces of plastic than was previously estimated, scientists said. The average liter of bottled water contains around 240,000 detectable plastic fragments, researchers wrote in a study published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. They were able to find […]
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Saturday, January 6th, 2024
By AJITH SIRIWARDANA Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Jan. 06 (Daily Mirror)- The Health Ministry has introduced a hotline number for people to contact on matters related to the prevention and control of the dengue epidemic. Director of the National Dengue Control Unit Dr. Sudath Samaraweera said members of the public can contact the hotline number […]
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Saturday, January 6th, 2024
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Jan 06 (Daily Mirror) – The Health Ministry today commenced the Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR) Supplementary Immunization Activity across all immunization clinic centres in nine high-risk health districts. The targeted areas include Colombo (including the CMC area), Gampaha, Kalutara, Galle, Matara, Kandy, Jaffna, Kurunegala, and Kalmunai. Running from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 […]
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Friday, January 5th, 2024
Courtesy People’s Daily Online COLOMBO, Jan. 4 (Xinhua) — Sri Lanka’s Health Ministry has declared a countrywide dengue prevention week from Jan. 7 to Jan. 13, said the National Dengue Control Unit on Thursday. Addressing a press conference in Colombo to announce the initiative, Sudath Samaraweera, the director of the National Dengue Control Unit, said […]
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Friday, January 5th, 2024
Courtesy Adaderana The State Minister of Indigenous Medicine, Sisira Jayakody announced on Thursday (Jan.04) that athe government has taken a significant step towards reducing healthcare costs by exempting Ayurvedic products, medicines and industries-related to indigenous medicine from Value Added Tax (VAT). The decision aims to make traditional medicine more accessible to the public, he explained. […]
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Thursday, January 4th, 2024
Courtesy Adaderana UNICEF, together with the World Health Organization (WHO), has planned to support the Health Ministry in implementing a supplementary measles immunization activity (SIA) in Sri Lanka aimed at controlling the ongoing measles outbreak, midst over 700 measles cases reported in the country since May 2023. The SIA will be launched in two phases; […]
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Wednesday, January 3rd, 2024
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Rambukwella Incriminating fresh statement from cancer drug supplier recorded The Cabinet Office has handed over the documents requested by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) investigating the procurement of fake immunoglobulin by the Health Ministry. Authoritative sources said that the two sets of documents had been handed over to the […]
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Saturday, December 30th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana Minister of Health Ramesh Pathirana has called for a report from the Director of the Colombo National Hospital on the death of a patient, which is linked to the ostensible administration of high levels of carbon dioxide. Recently, reports were rife that a patient under medical care at the Colombo National Hospital was […]
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Friday, December 29th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana Over 10,000 cases of dengue infections have been recorded in the month of December alone, bringing the total number of infections reported in 2023 to 87,078. Accordingly, 10,600 novel dengue cases were witnessed within this month alone, with the highest number of infections being recorded from the Colombo, Gampaha and Kalutara districts, as […]
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Thursday, December 28th, 2023
Courtesy The Island Dr. Palitha Mahipala By Rathindra Kuruwita Health Secretary Dr. Palitha Mahipala said on Thursday that over 700 cases of measles had been reported since May 2023, mostly from the Colombo District.Gampaha, Kalutara, Galle, Matara, Kandy, Jaffna, Kurunegala, and Ampara were among the districts affected by the spread of measles, Dr. Maheepala said. […]
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Wednesday, December 27th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana A team from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is currently recording a statement from former Health Minister Keheliya Rambukwella at his residence, the police said. The relevant statement is being recorded over the controversial sub-standard Immunoglobulin import issue, according to police. Accordingly, a team of officers from the CID had visited the Environment […]
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Sunday, December 24th, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Kandy, Dec 24 (Daily Mirror)- A suspected Covid-19 death was reported from the National Hospital in Kandy yesterday (23). According to sources, the victim is a 65-year-old man from the Atgala area of Gampola. The individual was initially admitted with breathing difficulties and a lung infection, and a post-mortem PCR test […]
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Saturday, December 23rd, 2023
Courtesy The Island Fake Immunoglobulin: … suspect in touch with Health Ministry since 2013 Keheliya Rambukwella Environment Minister Keheliya Rambukwella yesterday (22) said that in spite of the then Chief Executive Officer and Director General of National Medicines Regulatory Authority (NMRA) declaring that the proprietor of Isolez Biotech Pharma AG Sugath Janaka Fernando alias Aruna […]
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Wednesday, December 20th, 2023
Letter to India’s prime minister and the minister of health The global pandemic preparedness accord (‘pandemic treaty’) currently being put in place by the World Health Organization (WHO) will pave the way for a fascist approach to societal management.” The beneficiaries will be unscrupulous corporations and investors whom the COVID‐19 response served well. This will […]
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Friday, December 8th, 2023
Courtesy The Island BY Dr B. J. C. PereraMBBS(Cey), DCH(Cey), DCH(Eng), MD(Paed), MRCP(UK), FRCP(Edin), FRCP(Lon), FRCPCH(UK), FSLCPaed, FCCP, Hony FRCPCH(UK), Hony. FCGP(SL)Specialist Consultant Paediatrician and Honorary Senior Fellow, Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. It is a well-known fact that many organs of the human body have some reserve quantum to fall […]
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Friday, December 8th, 2023
by Drs. Sunil J. Wimalawansa (Prof. of Medicine)and Chandra B. Dissanayake (Prof. of Geology) Since identifying chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology (CKDu) in Sri Lanka in the mid-1990s, little progress has been made in aetiology and prevention. Despite the numerous hypotheses and conjectures—with more than 35—none have been thoroughly studied or substantiated as the […]
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Saturday, December 2nd, 2023
By Dr. Sasika Palathiratnem BAMS (Hons.) – FIM, UoC Courtesy The Island Ayurveda is a holistic system of medicine with Vedic roots that originated in India about 5,000 years ago. Ayurveda is not only a complete system of medicine but also a scientific philosophy of life, with the two main objectives of prevention and curing of […]
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