{"id":151503,"date":"2025-08-23T16:19:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T23:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=151503"},"modified":"2025-08-23T16:19:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T23:19:52","slug":"former-president-ranil-wickremesinghe-admitted-to-icu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/08\/23\/former-president-ranil-wickremesinghe-admitted-to-icu\/","title":{"rendered":"FORMER PRESIDENT RANIL WICKREMESINGHE ADMITTED TO ICU"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe has been transferred from the prison hospital to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Colombo National Hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A hospital spokesperson stated that Wickremesinghe was moved to the ICU due to elevated blood pressure and sugar levels, as well as severe fatigue and exhaustion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wickremesinghe, who is currently in remand custody until August 26, was transferred to the National Hospital for further treatment on the recommendation of a medical team from the prison hospital and other specialist doctors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was moved from the prison hospital to the Colombo National Hospital this afternoon (23).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe has been transferred from the prison hospital to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Colombo National Hospital. A hospital spokesperson stated that Wickremesinghe was moved to the ICU due to elevated blood pressure and sugar levels, as well as severe fatigue and exhaustion. Wickremesinghe, who is currently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-ranil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151503","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=151503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}