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"to introduce new vaccines, to improve vaccine access, strengthen supply chains, and further improve public health servi
GP Certified label guarantees that packaging meets standards across 3 areas: safety, quality, and sustainability
Sri Lanka remains at the forefront of best practices, UNICEF said.
50 percent of Sri Lanka’s population does not brush their teeth twice a day, he said.
CT scanners, MRI scanners, DSA, cardiac catheterization units to be provided under public private partnerships
Includes 2,891 scooters for midwives and 1,350 motorbikes for public health inspectors
About 100 rural hospitals are on the verge of closing down due to the lack of doctors,
5.6 billion rupees was allocated from the Treasury for the supply of medicines
Rambukwella, meanwhile, has been given the Environment portfolio.
This availability of data helps the hospital provide treatment easily when the patient returns to the hospital.
Steps to enact necessary legal provisions so that medical degrees by foreign universities can be accepted in Sri Lanka.
For breast cancer, we are not doing screening at a population level in our country
To take on a 40 percent increase, government hospital expenditure should exceed 200 billion rupees, an official claims.
Sri Lanka stops emergency procurement of drugs, Bangladesh to help with medicine shortage: Minister
Sri Lanka has witnessed over 1,000 doctors and consultants migrating after the unprecedented economic crisis
Thousands of doctors have left Sri Lanka after economic crisis
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Health Minister rejects crisis in the sector, says UNICEF report wrong
"Even now, our medical faculties are run amidst great difficulty,” he said.
Opposition brought the no confidence vote after a raft of deaths suspected over lower quality drugs
“I think together with the foreign ministry, you should make this case and we should press it at different fora."
“This time, our trade union action will be done together with the patients,” he said.
“We recommend that swift action be taken to ensure and enhance the public procurement of medicines."
Sri Lanka’s unprecedented economic crisis has forced it cut costs across all the sectors including health
We are not geared to participate because of the uncertainty on how fast we will get the money.
The measured median and mean salt intake for adults aged 25–64 years was 11.4 and 13.3 grammes per day.
The stock of medicine was handed over to the Minister of Health Keheliya Rambukwella on June 20,2023
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