By Professor Sunil J. Wimalawansa, MD, Ph.D., MBA, DSc. Prof. Sunil J. Wimalawansa The official reports on the prevalence and the number of deaths related to COVID-19 in tropical countries including Sri Lanka (excluding India) have been surprisingly low compared to most temperate countries. Let us explore some of the critical reasons for this significant discrepancy.   Why was […]

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Sunil Wimalawansa  Dear Editor:  It is very unfortunate that most of the comments by the author of the email below are unfounded, scientifically incorrect, and is geared to nothing else but character assassination.  Just because a person disagrees, there is no reason to attack him or her and engage in assassination.  This is scandalous and […]

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By Saundarya Wellaboda Courtesy Ceylon Today World-renowned Professor of Medicine and expert in Endocrinology, Vitamin D and human Nutrition, Professor Sunil Wimalawansa has offered his services to the highest authorities in Sri Lanka to help the country to successfully fight the COVID-19 pandemic mainly with reference to disease prevention. In a previous article, Professor Wimalawansa […]

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by Professor Sunil J, Wimalawansa, MD, PhD, MBA, DSc. Caption: Myths & Facts: Staying Healthy During V COVID-19 Pandemic The common link to the U-Tube channel o COVID-19: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgcTivH1nGwymgX_cb0V4Mg ——————————————————————————- Video 1:  Introduction – Staying Healthy Video 2:  What is meaningful social distancing? Video 3: Controlling COVID-19: Some countries are successful and others are not […]

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Sunil J Wimalawansa Professor of Medicine, Endocrinology, & Nutrition, USA Dear friends: Since I haven’t seen any medical society from Sri Lanka providing safe practices and guidelines for avoiding COVID-19, I thought of sending this in a summarized form.  I hope these and the links provided at the end of this email will be useful […]

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Sunil Wimalawansa The macroeconomic issues (e.g., trade) are poorly handed by many south Asian countries, including successive governments in Sri Lankan.  This seems to be getting worse in recent years, leading to increasing weakening of local currency and increasing debt.  The latter further increases the cost of borrowing and loan payments to creditors, and credit […]

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Prof. Sunil J Wimalawansa, MD, PhD, MBA, DSc ශ්‍රී  ලංකාවාසී ප්‍රබුද්ධ වෘත්තිකභවතුන් වෙත‍ය, රජරට පවත්නා වකුගඩු රෝගය වලක්වාලීමේ සහ මුලිනුපුටා දැමීමේ ක්‍රියා මාර්ගය – ඉදිරි දැක්ම: විශේෂයෙන් උතුරුමැද පළාතේ වකුගඩු රෝගීන්ගේ සංඛාව සීග්‍රයෙන් වැඩිවන අතර එමගින් කෘෂි සමාජයේ ජන ජීවිතය විනාශ වීමේ ප්‍රවනතාවයක් උද්ගත වී ඇති බව ප්‍රකට කරැණකි. එම අන්තරාදායක තත්ත්වය සපුරාම අවසන් කිරීමට […]

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Dr. Sunil J. Wimalawansa, Hon. Maithripala Sirisena The President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka President’s Office, Colombo 1 Dear Sir: Chronic Kidney Disease in Rajarata, Prevention and Eradication:- The Way Forward As Your Excellency is aware the Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) that has predominately affected the north-central province NCP) of Sri Lanka […]

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