Health and Mass Media Minister Dr. Nalinda Jayatissa emphasized the need for a dual healthcare model in Sri Lanka, where both ...

Sri Lanka has long provided free medical education. To address the disparities in education prevailing between different ...

Sri Lanka’s only fee-based state hospital and tertiary referral centre is Sri Jayewardenapura General Hospital (SJGH). Founded in 1983 as a state-owned enterprise (SOE) and funded in part by the ...

Currently, the State Pharmaceuticals Manufacturing Corporation of Sri Lanka, which was established in 1987, provides all drugs used in public sector facilities across the country and accounts for ...

In private institutes, stem cell transplantation is an extremely expensive procedure in Sri Lanka, which costs between 5 and 15 million Sri Lankan rupees based on the type of stem cell transplant.

The 35-year-old Sri Lankan doctor left Sri Lanka in January 2023 to take up a job in the United Kingdom, after working in a government hospital in the remote town of Hatton, 120km (75 miles) east ...

The Sri Lankan Healthcare Fraternity recognised the hospital as capable of bridging the gap in paediatric cardiac care in Sri Lanka, where 3,000 children are born with a congenital heart disease ...