{"id":114473,"date":"2021-05-23T14:58:13","date_gmt":"2021-05-23T21:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=114473"},"modified":"2021-05-23T14:58:13","modified_gmt":"2021-05-23T21:58:13","slug":"50-ayurveda-hospitals-to-be-converted-into-covid-19-treatment-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/05\/23\/50-ayurveda-hospitals-to-be-converted-into-covid-19-treatment-centers\/","title":{"rendered":"50 Ayurveda hospitals to be converted into COVID-19 treatment centers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Ministry of Health has decided to convert 50 Ayurveda hospitals across the island into intermediate COVID-19 treatment centers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision has been made at a special discussion held today (May 23) with Minister of Health Pavithra Wanniarachchi, on the advice of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the conversion of the Ayurveda hospitals into treatment centers, 3,500 more beds will be available for COVID-19 patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The staff members of the selected Ayurveda hospital will be provided formal training on COVID-19 treatment methods, the Ministry stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, the relevant staff would also be vaccinated against the virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Ministry of Health has decided to convert 50 Ayurveda hospitals across the island into intermediate COVID-19 treatment centers. The decision has been made at a special discussion held today (May 23) with Minister of Health Pavithra Wanniarachchi, on the advice of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. With the conversion of the Ayurveda hospitals into treatment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}