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SJB MP Eran Wickramaratne says the importation of inferior medicine by way of emergency procurement and non-functioning medical, surgical and other test equipment in hospitals have ruined the public health sector. Addressing the Media at the Office of the Leader of Opposition on Sunday (6Aug2023), Wickramaratne said that this pathetic situation in the health sector […]
- SJB: State audit vindicates no-faith motion against Keheliya, remedial measures urgently required (Category: Breaking News)
- Health sector strike to resume on 01 Feb. (Category: Breaking News)
- 72 health sector unions to resume strike from Tuesday (Category: Breaking News)
- Ousting govt. only way to solve country’s problems – Women for Rights (Category: Breaking News)
By N Sathiya Moorthy If someone thought that President Ranil Wickremesinghe was funny about it, he was not. If anything, it sounded more Quixotic than possibly predecessor Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s misadventure with ‘organic farming’. According to reports, at an official meeting the other day, Wickremesinghe asked Health Ministry officials to devise a strategy to seek compensation […]
- GMOA Presents Proposal to President addressing Healthcare Challenges and Brain Drain (Category: Breaking News)
- Indian tourists visiting Sri Lanka can pay in INR (Category: Breaking News)
- Catholic priest claims key information shared with CID (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil assures to protect rights of children and elderly (Category: Breaking News)
The Disaster Management Centre (DMC) says that 12 districts across the island are currently facing drinking water shortages, owing to the prevailing dry weather conditions.
ECONOMYNEXT –Amid reports of rising brain drain, Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe has directed government officials to devise a strategy to seek compensation from foreign nations that recruit Sri Lankan doctors. Speaking at a discussion with health ministry officials on Thursday August 03, President Wickremesinghe proposed that the matter be raised at World Health Organisation […]
- Kumudesh questions Keheliya’s stand on drugs imported outside procedure (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka President instructs to formulate new Medical Act within six months to protect citizens... (Category: Breaking News)
- Without investment into laboratories, SL will be plagued by low quality medicine – Expert (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘Dangerous drugs’ (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Incubating Again: Response To Tisaranee Gunasekara appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Pyromaniacs On The March (Category: Breaking News)
- Incubating, Again (Category: Breaking News)
- Kurundi: A Runway To ’56? (Category: Breaking News)
- Is Sri Lanka An Ethnocracy? (Category: Breaking News)
Cassandra in her Friday Cry-s has often noted with deep gratitude that nature has been benevolent to suffering, down and almost out Sri Lanka. Forest fires due to intemperate temperature in usually cool climes; sudden floods due to torrential rains; erupting volcanoes and earthquakes have all assiduously avoided troubling poor little Sri Lanka struggling against […]
- ADB to provide Rs 10 billion for local paddy cultivators to buy MoP this Maha (Category: Breaking News)
- Arrogance of power (Category: Breaking News)
- The drought, Mahaveli waters and the farmer (Category: Business)
- Reservoirs run dry with no rains, country heading for electricity crisis (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe has given instructions to formulate a new Medical Act within six months.The post Sri Lanka President instructs to formulate new Medical Act within six months to protect citizens’ well-being appeared first on ONLANKA - Sri Lanka Latest Breaking News and Top Stories.
- Compensation to be sought from countries taking Sri Lankan doctors (Category: Breaking News)
- President wants compensation from countries that recruit Lankan docs (Category: Breaking News)
- New Medical Act will be formulated within six months – President (Category: Breaking News)
- Kumudesh questions Keheliya’s stand on drugs imported outside procedure (Category: Breaking News)
Health sector trade unions have decided to launch a token strike on Thursday (03) across the entire health sector of the country. The strike is to be launched over several issues including the shortage of medicines at state hospitals and the procurement of substandard drugs. Representatives of unions of the health sector are scheduled to meet in […]
- Treat patients with utmost care � President (Category: Breaking News)
- New Acts to boost health sector (Category: Breaking News)
- Union anger over gaffe (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
- Presidential Task Force for Health Sector (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka decided to immediately suspend the use of rice for the production of animal feed and beer.The post Sri Lanka suspends use of rice to make beer and feed animals appeared first on ONLANKA - Sri Lanka Latest Breaking News and Top Stories.
- Drought dents Sri Lanka’s economic hopes, farmers’ livelihood (Category: Breaking News)
- Price of rice packet and cup of plain tea reduced (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka imports Keeri Samba, eggs and maize (Category: Breaking News)
- Japan provides USD 4.6 Million to support Sri Lankan women and girls’ health (Category: Breaking News)
In a veiled attack on China, National Security Adviser Ajit Doval said BRICS could work together on listing terrorists and their proxies under the UN counter-terrorism sanctions regime but emphasised that the process should be free from “politics and double standards.” Ajit Doval made the remarks during the meeting of the National Security Advisers of […]
- Ajit Doval Calls For Transparency On Shared Cross-Border Water Resources (Category: Breaking News)
- At BRICS NSAs’ meeting, Doval calls for need to bolster cooperation against terrorism without an... (Category: Breaking News)
- President Rajapaksa and Ajit Doval focus on regional security (Category: Breaking News)
- President Rajapaksa and Ajit Doval focus on regional security (Category: Breaking News)
The Chairman of the Human Rights Commission and other members called on President Ranil Wickremesinghe at the Presidential Secretariat yesterday (28) afternoon. During the meeting, they apprised the President of the considerable volume of public complaints received by the Sri Lanka Human Rights Commission, which has reached nearly 11,000. They also raised concerns about the […]
- Lanka's Human Rights Commission requests to increase its powers (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka's Human Rights Commission requests President to increase its powers (Category: Breaking News)
- Final report of LLRC will be hand over to the President on November 20th (Category: Breaking News)
- LLRC report to be released beforehand (Category: Breaking News)
Amidst chaos in health sector The Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) has sought President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s intervention to reach a consensus on a new salary structure, according to the President’ Office.The meeting took place amidst a rapid deterioration of the public health sector, plagued with severe shortage of medicine and equipment and with some hospitals […]
- GMOA suspends token strike (Category: Breaking News)
- Docs to boycott VIP ambulances and clinics organised by politicians (Category: Breaking News)
- GMOA unanimously decides to repudiate Dr. Wijesuriya as Deputy DGHS (Category: Breaking News)
- GMOA accuses govt. of contemplating 15% pay cut for health workers (Category: Breaking News)
The Minister of Ports, Shipping and Aviation, Nimal Siripala de Silva, went on record a few days ago saying that if all the pilots in SriLankan Airlines leave, he will get foreign pilots to replace them. He stated this at a joint programme of CAASL and IATA on Aviation Day at Katunayake on Friday, July […]
- Pilot Shortage At SriLankan Airlines (Category: Breaking News)
- SriLankan and Fits Air ask permission to recruit foreign pilots to overcome severe shortage (Category: Breaking News)
- UL attempt to recruit foreign pilots flops due to low pay, high taxes – Dayasiri (Category: Breaking News)
- SriLankan Flight Academy opens heralding a new era in aviation training (Category: Business)
The Gazette notification issued earlier this year stipulating a Maximum Retail Price (MRP) for eggs was withdrawn at midnight on Tuesday (July 25), according to the Ministry of Trade.The post Gazette issued removing maximum retail price for eggs appeared first on ONLANKA - Sri Lanka Latest Breaking News and Top Stories.
- New maximum retail price announced for eggs (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka announces Maximum retail price for eggs by weight (Category: Breaking News)
- Maximum retail price for eggs (Category: Breaking News)
- New maximum retail price announced for eggs (Category: Breaking News)
By Jayantha Somasundaram (This articlecontinued from yesterday (25) is based on reporting by the international media on the events in Sri Lanka forty years ago.) “For day after day Tamils were beaten, hacked or burned to death in the streets, on buses, on trains – sometimes in the sight of horrified foreign tourists. Their homes […]
- JULY 1983: AS THE WORLD SAW SRI LANKA (Category: Breaking News)
- Horror Of A Pogrom: Remembering “Black July” 1983 (Category: Breaking News)
- Sarath Weerasekera Thinks The Tamils In Sri Lanka Are Born Slaves (Category: Breaking News)
- Niemöller’s Quote Resonating With Aragalaya’s Aim For Racial Unity! (Category: Breaking News)
One hundred and seventy five (175) of the 852 Sri Lanka Transport Board (SLTB) owned busses which have been out of service for nearly three years due to the shortage of spare parts have been repaired at a cost of Rs 300 million. Of the 175 buses which have been made roadworthy, 15 buses will […]
- Serial bus yobs ban (Category: South Australia)
- SLTB to deploy 500 more buses (Category: Breaking News)
- Express Travel (Category: Business)
- Electric buses to be on Albuquerque streets (Category: USA, New Mexico)
By Saman Indrajith The SJB yesterday commenced collecting signatures for a no-confidence motion against Health Minister Keheliya Rambukwella.Opposition and SJB leader Sajith Premadasa announced to the House that his party had decided to move a no confidence motion against Health Minister Rambukwella and invited others to support it. Premadasa commenced the signing of the motion […]
- No confidence against Keheliya defeated 113 – 73 with 38 MPs absent (Category: Breaking News)
- SJB Leader wants action against not only Rambukwella but also 113 MPs who defeated no-faith motion (Category: Breaking News)
- No faith-motion against Keheliya: Mixed reaction from health sector (Category: Breaking News)
- SJB punching above its weight (Category: Breaking News)
At first glance, life in Sri Lanka's financial capital Colombo looks deceptively normal.The post Is the worst over for Sri Lanka’s economic crisis? appeared first on ONLANKA - Sri Lanka Latest Breaking News and Top Stories.
- USAID Administrator Samantha Power arrives in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s revenue shortfall concerns IMF team – sources (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka aims to have $2.9 billion IMF loan finalised in December (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka hit by record brain drain, but some stay to rebuild (Category: Breaking News)
While sitting in a car on Duplication Road one evening around 6 pm in a traffic jam, it occurred to me that if an alien being happened to pass by, she would be intrigued as to why Sri Lankans are so fond of Colombo that they are prepared to sacrifice so much in order to […]
- JVP plans protest in Colombo tomorrow (Category: Breaking News)
- Archbishop Emeritus Oswald Gomis passes away (Category: Breaking News)
- Say no to NEPF! Say no to abolishing free education! (Category: Breaking News)
- Economist falls to his death (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe has instructed the Health Ministry to expedite the approval process for drugs endorsed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).The post Sri Lanka President instructs to expedite drugs approval process, suggests amendment of NMRA Act appeared first on ONLANKA - Sri Lanka Latest Breaking News and Top Stories.
- Sri Lanka President instructs to formulate new Medical Act within six months to protect citizens... (Category: Breaking News)
- President responds to drug shortage, suggests amendment of NMRA Act (Category: Breaking News)
- President wants compensation from countries that recruit Lankan docs (Category: Breaking News)
- Compensation to be sought from countries taking Sri Lankan doctors (Category: Breaking News)
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has instructed the Ministry of Health to expedite the approval process for drugs endorsed by the Food and Drugs Administration (FDA).
By Shamindra Ferdinando The Government Medical Officers’ Forum (GMOF) yesterday (13) pointed out that India couldn’t absolve itself of the responsibility for the alleged supply of low quality Indian medicines to Sri Lanka under the USD 1 bn credit line opened over a year ago. GMOF President Dr. Rukshan Bellana said so, referring to the […]
- Rape? Complain to CID, NMRA boss tells Dr. Bellana (Category: Breaking News)
- CID summons doctors’ union chief to record statement (Category: Breaking News)
- NHSL junior staff to continue protests until Dr. Bellana is removed (Category: Breaking News)
- Dr. Bellana says ready to resign if transferred from NHSL (Category: Breaking News)
Babarandage Don Sarath Appuham, a 59-year-old fisherman, has worked at Negombo Lagoon since he was a teenager. Palpable differences in tide patterns and fish catches from climate change have complicated his work. “We used to always go at 9am, then 1pm. It’s no longer that predictable,” Sarath told Al Jazeera. They have to gauge conditions […]
- Stern action if prohibited nets are used (Category: Breaking News)
- Empty Nets (Category: Business)
- SIS-Navy operation nets trawler with large consignment of narcotics (Category: Breaking News)
- DMK nets fishing crisis (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post A Year After Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka Remains In Crisis: New Leadership Has Failed To Uphold Basic Rights, Bring Accountability appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Canada Imposes Sanctions On Mahinda Rajapaksa And Gotabaya Rajapaksa For Human Rights Violations (Category: Breaking News)
- Getting Nearer To Solution As Options Narrow (Category: Breaking News)
- Damning Report From UN Envoy On Human Rights Spells Rocky Road For Nandasena Administration In G... (Category: Breaking News)
- Can Sri Lanka Come Out Of Its ‘Deer In The Headlights’ Mindset? (Category: Breaking News)
Medical Faculty Students Action Committee alleges that there is a severe shortage of lecturers in every medical faculty in the country.
- Three faculties at Jpura uni closed - Registrar (Category: Breaking News)
- Laboratory to identify cancer cells (Category: Breaking News)
- Rajarata University medical faculty closed down (Category: Breaking News)
- Medical Faculty students stage satyagraha against hostel fees hike (Category: Breaking News)
By Dr. C. S. Weeraratna (csweera@sltnet.lk) Poverty is a condition characterized by severe deprivation of basic human needs, such as food, shelter, safe drinking water, sanitation facilities, health, and education. Various criteria are used to measure poverty. The most commonly used is based on incomes. A person is considered poor if his or her income level […]
- Urban poverty triples in Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Pro-poor growth and Economic growth in Sri Lanka - A critical analysis (Category: Breaking News)
- Deteriorating rural economy, and food security (Category: Breaking News)
- Overcoming Food Insecurity (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post The Misunderstood Taxation Of EPF & Other Superannuation Funds appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- The Apologetic Custodian Of The EPF Is Also A Victim (Category: Breaking News)
- Economy 2024: More Challenging Than The Two Previous Years (Category: Breaking News)
- EPF asked to pay 30% tax unless it participates in domestic debt restructuring process (Category: Breaking News)
- Central Bank informs EPF members: “decided to opt for” DDO (Category: Breaking News)
Udeni Kaluthantri, a 54-year-old port worker, became an overnight sensation last year for reasons that had nothing to do with his job. Days after protesters stormed the presidential palace in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo, a video surfaced of Mr Kaluthantri lounging on a bed draped with the presidential flag. Pictures of young men jumping […]
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- Pakistan’s Supreme Court rules Imran Khan arrest was illegal (Category: Breaking News)
- A divided Japan bids farewell to its slain ex-PM (Category: Breaking News)
Attempts made by SriLankan Airlines to recruit foreigners had failed due to low pay and high taxes here, Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) MP Dayasiri Jayasekera told Parliament on Friday (07).He said that the management of SriLankan and the line Minister were encouraging pilots to leave the airline. “The dispute between pilots and the management […]
- Getting Wings (Category: Business)
- SriLankan obtains govt s approval to recruit foreign pilots (Category: Breaking News)
- Pilots of SriLankan Airlines slam shortsighted decisions of the management (Category: Breaking News)
- 70 pilots leave SriLankan during last six months – Sajith (Category: Breaking News)
The US will send Ukraine a cluster munitions package to help in its counteroffensive against Russia. The White House said it had postponed the decision for as long as it could because of the risk of civilian harm from such unexploded ordnance. Ukraine has been asking for the weapons for months amid an ammunition shortage. […]
- Pope condemns human ‘hunger for wealth and power’ at Christmas Eve Mass (Category: Breaking News)
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- Biden tells Zelensky his country will never stand alone (Category: Breaking News)
- Rishi Sunak visits President Zelensky in Kyiv as he pledges £50m in aid (Category: Breaking News)
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