According to the WHO Office in Colombo the award has been presented to the President Sirisena at a ceremony held at the President's House in Colombo this evening.
'President Sirisena has been awarded for his outstanding visionary contributions and tireless pursuit of good health for the people of his country. He has been instrumental in strengthening health system and services and has made commendable contributions to tobacco control, drugs regulation, health of migrants and control of chronic kidney disease,” Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director, WHO South-East Asia Region, said here after honoring the President with the WHO award.
WHO has also presented “the same award to the Ministry of Public Health of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea(North Korea).The Ministry is being awarded for safeguarding and strengthening the traditional medicine system and using it to provide effective health care to people,” the Regional Director said..
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