{"id":151511,"date":"2025-08-23T17:02:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T00:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=151511"},"modified":"2025-08-23T17:02:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T00:02:58","slug":"ranils-condition-stable-national-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/08\/23\/ranils-condition-stable-national-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"\u200bRanil\u2019s condition stable \u2013 National Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe\u2019s health condition is stable, the National Hospital in Colombo confirmed today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking to the Daily Mirror, Colombo National Hospital Acting Director Dr. Pradeep Wijesinghe said His blood pressure is a bit high due to his age, but we only transferred him to the ICU as a precautionary measure,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is not in a critical condition,\u201d Dr. Wijesinghe added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wickremesinghe was transferred to the National Hospital earlier today following medical assessments that indicated the need for specialist treatment unavailable at the prison hospital.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was initially admitted to the prison hospital yesterday after being remanded by court, citing multiple health complications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe\u2019s health condition is stable, the National Hospital in Colombo confirmed today. Speaking to the Daily Mirror, Colombo National Hospital Acting Director Dr. Pradeep Wijesinghe said His blood pressure is a bit high due to his age, but we only transferred him to the ICU as a precautionary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151511","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=151511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}