{"id":80112,"date":"2018-08-12T15:01:48","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T22:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=80112"},"modified":"2018-08-12T15:01:48","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T22:01:48","slug":"is-india-responsible-for-medicinal-waste-accumulating-on-sri-lankan-shores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/08\/12\/is-india-responsible-for-medicinal-waste-accumulating-on-sri-lankan-shores\/","title":{"rendered":"Is India responsible for medicinal waste accumulating on Sri Lankan shores?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"stryimg\" class=\"\">\n<h2 class=\"stryimg\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy India Today<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"description tbl-forkorts-article\">\n<p>Thousands of expiired medicines, bottles, polythene packages and syringes have found there way to the shores of Puttalam and neighbouring regions in Sri Lanka. What&#8217;s shocking is that all these expired medicines and bottles have seals and manufacturing stamps of India.<\/p>\n<p>The Puttalam fisheries officials suspect that the medical waste is coming from the Indian side and that it was disposed off in the sea in a hazardous manner.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Is India responsible for medicinal waste accumulating on Sri Lankan shores?\" src=\"https:\/\/akm-img-a-in.tosshub.com\/indiatoday\/images\/story\/201808\/lanka_shores_0.jpeg?8qIExdmYqHt0mfCJFWr4cze7fVnAO_VL\" alt=\"Is India responsible for medicinal waste accumulating on Sri Lankan shores?\" width=\" \" height=\" \" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"stryimg\">\n<div class=\"photoby\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"image-alt\">Puttalam fisheries officials suspect that the medical waste is coming from the Indian side.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mobile-body-ad\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"itgimage\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akm-img-a-in.tosshub.com\/indiatoday\/images\/bodyeditor\/201808\/WASTE-647x722.JPG?683P4OZbDXM9ofcitIulwJ2G7MgHiZO2\" alt=\"\" data-syndication=\"no\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"body_caption\">Medicinal waste accumulating on Sri Lankan shores.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The fishermen in the region fear that this will affect the fish in the sea and in turn their livelihood.<\/p>\n<p>Officials in the region will begin a probe on how the medical waste is reaching the Sri Lankan waters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy India Today Thousands of expiired medicines, bottles, polythene packages and syringes have found there way to the shores of Puttalam and neighbouring regions in Sri Lanka. What&#8217;s shocking is that all these expired medicines and bottles have seals and manufacturing stamps of India. The Puttalam fisheries officials suspect that the medical waste is coming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80112","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=80112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}