Champa Fernando Secretary – KACPAW (Kandy Association  for Community Protection through Animal Welfare) It is laudable that successive governements since 2008 had continued to-date with the intrinsically HUMANE National Dog Sterilization Programme for dog Population Management  (DPM), recommended by world bodies such as the WHO, OIE (Office International des Epizooties – World  Organization for Animal […]

සමස්ත ලංකා වෛද්‍ය නිළධාරීන්ගේ සංගමය. කෙහෙළිය රඹුක්වැල්ල මැතිතුමාසෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය,සෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශය,385, සුවසිරිපායපූජ්‍ය බද්දේගම විමලවාංශ නාහිමි මාවතකොළඹ – 10. ඇමතිතුමනි, උග්‍ර පිළිකා නාශක ඖෂධ හිඟයට කඩිනම් විසඳුම් ලබාදෙන ලෙස ඉල්ලා සිටීම. මහරගම අපේක්ෂා රෝහල ඇතුළු වූ පිළිකා රෝගීන්ට ප්‍රතිකාර කරනු ලබන ප්‍රධාන පෙළේ රෝහල් 15 ක පමණ පිළිකා රෝගය සඳහා බහුලව භාවිතා කරනු ලබන අත්‍යවශ්‍ය පිළිකා නාශක […]

Courtesy La Prensa Latina Colombo, Dec 30 (EFE).- Sri Lanka stepped up its fight against dengue on Friday as the country recorded its highest number of infections since 2019, following a fresh outbreak in recent weeks. Health officials recorded over 75,000 dengue cases this year, more than double the number of infections from last year, […]

අජිත් හේරත් ෆයිසර්- මොඩෙර්නා mRNA එන්නත් හෘදයරෝගවලින් සිදුවන මරණවලට හේතුවක්- බ්‍රිතාන්‍යයේ ප්‍රමුඛ හෘද රෝග විශේෂඥ අසීම් මල්හෝත්‍රා1976 දී ඌරු උණ එන්නත තහනම් කළේ එය විසින් එය ලබාගත් පුද්ගලයන් 100,000 කින් එක් අයෙකුට ගිලියාන් බැරේ සින්ඩ්‍රෝම්( Guillain-Barre syndrome) නම් ස්නායු රෝගයක් සැදීමට හේතුවන නිසා. 1999 දී රොටා වයිරස් එන්නත (Rotavirus Vaccine)තහනම් කළේ එය විසින් ළමුන් 10,000කින් […]

Courtesy Adaderana At least 18 children have died after consuming a syrup manufactured by Indian drugmaker Marion Biotech Pvt Ltd, Uzbekistan’s Ministry of Health says. The ministry said 18 of 21 children who took the Doc-1 Max syrup while suffering from an acute respiratory disease died after consuming it. It is marketed on the company’s […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) signed an agreement with the Health Ministry to provide aircraft on a mobile Charter Basis for the purposes of airlifting remains of deceased personnel for organ retrieval at the request of the Ministry of Health. Accordingly, C-130, AN-32, MA-60, Y-12, MI-17, Bell-412, Bell-212 and Bell-206 […]

Courtesy Hindustan Times Travellers to Sri Lanka would be free of mandatory Covid-19 restrictions with the lifting of a circular issued in 2021, Asela Gunawardena, the Director General of Health Services said. Sri Lanka on Wednesday decided to discontinue the Covid-19 vaccination certificate for travellers entering the island nation, officials said. Travellers to Sri Lanka […]

Courtesy Adaderana A consignment of essential medicines and medical supplies worth LKR 2 billion, donated by China, reached the Colombo Port today (Dec. 06). The shipment came in 24 containers (16,000 boxes) with a total of weight over 255 metric tonnes. It contained 8 million infusion sets, 1.2 million vials of omeprazole sodium for injection, […]

Courtesy Adaderana The main broker, who was arrested this morning (06 Dec) over his involvement in the human organ trafficking racket at a private hospital in Borella, has been remanded till 13 December. The 41-year-old resident of Kajimawatte was remanded till 13 December on orders of the Colombo Magistrate’s Court, while travel bans were imposed […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror A program to provide packs containing nutrients for children suffering from malnutrition is to be starte soon by the health ministry, Ministry Secretary Janaka Sri Chandraguptha said. He said a special program is to be drawn to put in place to provide ‘Thriposha’ for them. A recent survey conducted by the […]

Vichara The health of the nation is in the hands of the medical profession. The President claimed in Parliament that the government spends Rs 6 million to produce a graduate MBBS physician. What is unfortunate is that around 500 doctors leave the health service to go abroad. The GMOA claims that in the first 8 […]

Courtesy Thuppahis.com Dr. Sarath Gamini De Silva: Plenary lecture delivered at the Colombo Medical Congress. 24th Nov 2022, where his chosen title was  The Doctor in the Society: A Sri Lankan Perspective” I thank the organizers for inviting me  to talk on a very relevant  topic at a time when the role of the educated  in society […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Filing a writ petition before Court of Appeal, about 176 consultant specialist doctors have challenged the government’s decision to reduce their compulsory retirement age to 60 years. The petitioners are Specialist Consultants in varied fields of medicine including Cardiology, Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Oncology, Neurology, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Haematology, Opthalmogy, Histopatholy, Anaesthesia, Paediatrics and Auto-Rhinolaryngology. […]

Courtesy Adaderana The government of Myanmar donated a consignment of urgently required essential medicines and medical supplies worth over USD 1.48 Million to Sri Lanka, on Monday (Nov. 21). The consignment was officially handed over to the Ambassador of Sri Lanka to Myanmar, Janaka Bandara, by the Union Health Minister of Myanmar Dr. Thet Khaing Win, […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Some 81 schoolchildren who were addicted to drugs have been sent for rehabilitation within the first nine months of this year, Education Minister Susil Premajayantha said today. He told Parliament that three children who are between 1 and 14 year-old and 78 children aged between 15 and 19 years were among […]

රවී කුමුදේශ් සභාපති  සෞඛ්‍ය වෘත්තීයවේදීන්ගේ විද්වත් සංගමය PCR පරීක්ෂාවෙන් සොයාගත් මන්කිෆොක්ස් රෝගියාගේ නිදර්ශක, ජාන අනුක්‍රමික විශ්ලේෂණයක් මගින් වහා තහවුරු කර ගත යුතුයි. නව රෝගයක් සදහා සිදු කරනු ලබන PCR පරීක්ෂණ වල නිරවද්‍යතවය විචලනය විය හැකි නිසාත්, ශ්‍රී ලංකාව තුල භාවිත කරණු ලබන පරීක්ෂණ කට්ටල තොගයට පසු පරීක්ෂණ කට්ටටල වල විශාල දියුණු කිරීම් සිදු වූ නිසාත්, රටට […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, together with the Iranian Red Crescent, donated an urgently required consignment of essential medicines and other medical supplies to Sri Lanka at a ceremony held at the Red Crescent Office in Tehran on November 03. The total value of the medicine consignment is over SLR […]

Courtesy Adaderana An urgent shipment of medical aid has arrived in Sri Lanka, and which has been provided by the Qatar Fund for Development to support the health sector in the country, QNA reported. Qatar’s ambassador to Sri Lanka Jassim bin Jaber al-Sorour received the Qatari medical aid, which he handed over to Minister of […]

By Dr. Naomi Wolf Courtesy Global Research It’s Really True: They Know they are Killing the Babies All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the Translate Website” drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version). To receive Global Research’s Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click here. Visit and follow us […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Malaysian government has extended a goodwill gesture by donating a consignment of urgently required medical supplies to Sri Lanka, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs says. Based on a request made by Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Health seeking assistance in acquiring medical supplies for the island nation, the High Commission of Sri Lanka […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror There is a new trend of increasing use of synthetic drugs known as ICE (methamphetamine crystals) among girls, National Dangerous Drugs Control Board (NDDCB) said. NDDCB Assistant Counsellor Lakmee Nilanka said many girls and young women are lured into using drug through beauty parlors. She revealed these while participating in an […]

Priyantha Hettige Diabetes is a major killer of humans. It is very dangerous. It comes third or fourth after the chief killers namely, heart attacks and strokes. Anyone can develop diabetes by simply eating the wrong foods- by following the sweet path of ‘ignorance is bliss..’ But it makes your life very unpleasant and shortens […]

Courtesy Adaderana Japan has granted medical equipment worth JPY 800 million (USD 5.5 million) to the National Hospital Sri Lanka (NHSL) in Colombo and Colombo North Teaching Hospital in Ragama to strengthen the sustainable medical system adaptable to the current economic crisis and to strengthen the readiness against COVID-19. The Japanese Ambassador to Sri Lanka, […]

By Dr Indrajith P Hathurusingha Lecturer Department of Applied and Environmental Science CRTAFE, Geraldton Campus, Western Australia As we know, the entire country is in chaos with food insecurity and associated problems. People often seem to claim that their income is insufficient to manage their day-to-day expenses. Therefore, malnutrition, food of poor quality, and starvation […]

Courtesy Adaderana A consignment of medicines worth over Rs. 100 million donated by Ven. Nepalaye Maitri Thero, the founding President of the International Buddhist Society of Nepal in Lumbini was officially handed over to Senior Advisor to the President on National Security and President’s Chief of Staff Sagala Ratnayake, at the Presidential Secretariat, this morning […]

Lanka Lead News කොරෝනා එන්නත් පිළිබදව යුරෝපා පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ මන්ත්‍රී නෙදර්ලන්ත ජාතික රොබට් රූස් ආන්දෝලනාත්මක හෙළිදරව්වක් සිදු කර තිබේ. ඔහු යුරෝපා පාර්ලිමෙන්තුවේ දී කොරෝනා සම්බන්ධ තොරතුරු විමර්ශනයක් සිදු කර ඇති අතර, එහිදී ෆයිසර් සමාගමේ අධ්‍යක්ෂිකාවක් නිල වශයෙන් පිළිගෙන තිබුණේ කොරෝනා එන්නත් ජනතාවට ලබාදෙන්නට පටන්ගත්විට පවා එම එන්නතෙන් කොරෝනා ව්‍යාප්තිය වළකන බවට කිසිදු පරීක්ෂණයක් සිදු නොකළ බවයි. […]

රවී කුමුදේශ් සභාපති සෞඛ්‍ය වෘත්තීයවේදීන්ගේ විද්වත් සංගමය  👉අත්‍යවශ්‍ය ඖෂධ 120ක් හිඟයි 👉වෛද්‍ය පර්යේෂණ ආයතනයේ පරීක්ෂණ 40කට අධික ප්‍රමාණයක් සිදු කෙරෙන්නේ නෑ 👉සෞඛ්‍ය පහසුකම් සදහා ලැබී ඇති ණය සහ ආධාර, සෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශයේ අකාර්යක්ෂම බව නිසා අපතේ යනවා.  👉සෞඛ්‍ය අර්බුධයට හේතුව, ආර්ථික අර්බුධයට වඩා අකාර්යක්ෂම බව සහ තාක්ෂණික මාෆියාවන්ට යට වීමයි. අත්‍යවශ්‍ය ඖෂධ 120කට වඩා වැඩි ප්‍රමාණයක් […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, October 25 (newsin.asia): To commemorate the 7th Ayurveda Day, the Swami Vivekananda Cultural Center, the cultural arm of the High Commission of India in Colombo, organized a special  exhibition  on  the  theme  Ayurveda Everyday, Ayurveda Everywhere” for the Sri Lanka Police Force on 22nd October. The key objective of the exhibition was […]

Courtesy Hiru News According to the National STD/AIDS Control Programme sexually transmitted diseases including HIV are spreading more among school and university students. Dr. Rasanjali Hettiarachchi, director of the programme, stated to the correspondents, this situation is mostly reported from the districts of Colombo, Gampaha and Kandy. She also said, in the first five months […]

Courtesy Adaderana Medical supplies worth over USD 2.74 million have been donated by HOPE Worldwide, a leading international humanitarian organization in the United States, to provide immediate relief to Sri Lankans. This is in collaboration with the Embassy of Sri Lanka in Washington DC. This brings the total medical assistance to Sri Lanka from American […]