{"id":98478,"date":"2020-01-31T14:48:01","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T21:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=98478"},"modified":"2020-01-31T14:48:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T21:48:01","slug":"sri-lanka-well-prepared-for-any-possible-coronavirus-outbreak-who-rep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/01\/31\/sri-lanka-well-prepared-for-any-possible-coronavirus-outbreak-who-rep\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka well prepared for any possible coronavirus outbreak &#8211; WHO Rep"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Ada Derana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka is well prepared to address any possible coronavirus outbreak, says World Health Organisation (WHO) Representative to Sri Lanka Dr Razia Pendse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She stated this speaking exclusively to \u2018@HydePark\u2019 on Ada Derana.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Pendse stated that WHO works closely with Sri Lanka\u2019s Ministry of Health, the Disaster Preparedness Unit and the Disaster Management Center (DMC) to ensure that the country is well prepared to address any emergency of this sort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have all the necessary stockpiles what is needed in terms of equipment in this present situation. We are working very closely with the Ministry of Health to look at the preparedness in the hospitals, to also look at the different stockpiles and what could be the anticipated need, to see whether the country has it.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0d9a\u0ddc\u0dbb\u0ddd\u0db1\u0dcf \u0dc0\u0ddb\u0dbb\u0dc3\u0dba\u0da7 \u0db8\u0dd4\u0dc4\u0dd4\u0dab \u0daf\u0dd9\u0db1\u0dca\u0db1 \u0dbd\u0d82\u0d9a\u0dcf\u0dc0 \u0dc4\u0ddc\u0db3 \u0dc3\u0dd6\u0daf\u0dcf\u0db1\u0db8\u0d9a\u0dd2\u0db1\u0dca... \u0dbd\u0ddd\u0d9a \u0dc3\u0dde\u0d9b\u0dca\u200d\u0dba \u0dc3\u0d82\u0dc0\u0dd2\u0db0\u0dcf\u0db1\u0dba\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pKfbCwaAOiM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>She stated that if required they can quickly mobilize their international networks to get the supplies that is needed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We don\u2019t see any kind of huge gap here. The preparedness is very well. It is being monitored from the highest level,\u201d Dr Pendse said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Ada Derana Sri Lanka is well prepared to address any possible coronavirus outbreak, says World Health Organisation (WHO) Representative to Sri Lanka Dr Razia Pendse. She stated this speaking exclusively to \u2018@HydePark\u2019 on Ada Derana.&nbsp; Dr Pendse stated that WHO works closely with Sri Lanka\u2019s Ministry of Health, the Disaster Preparedness Unit and the [&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-98478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98478","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=98478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}