Sri Lanka Health News

The production last year was 981 million kg. "There were times during the season when unseasonal rains or lack of it hampered the crop...On the spiralling tea prices, Banerjee said overall prices are up by 30 percent over last year's...

A new state-of-the-art building would come up at the erstwhile Central prison area for the Madras Medical College, at an estimated cost of Rs...The medical college at present is located within the Government General Hospital (GH), and the government has...

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for greater support to developing countries in preventing diabetes, which kills at least one million people every year, and in increasing access to health care. In a message marking World Diabetes Day, Mr. Ban noted...

It would be very wise to take the pains of being in line but be healthy by being cautious, while we really hope and wait for a time when we have better facilities, better systems, more doctors and other health...

The Northern Province Governor Major General (retired) G.A. Chandrasiri says that the Government has spent a lot of money for the development process of the northern province and the recipients of those benefits have a responsibility to join in the...

Sudarma Senevirathana�s teenage daughter is at an age when she can already be given the �rubella� vaccine, administered free of charge by government health officials at schools. But Senevirathana refuses to subject her twelve-year-old daughter to the injection. "She can...