HEALTH TIP

South East Asia Regional Health Ministers Performs Yoga Exercises At Galle Face Hotel Garden

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Eleven Health Ministers who are participating the on going World Health Organization's South East Asia Regional Health Ministers Summit in Colombo had participated a Yoga Exercise Programme along with President Maithripala Sirisena ,Director General Of WHO Dr.Margaret Chan and  other WHO and Health Ministry Officials at the Galle Face Hotel Garden in Colombo early  this morning.

 

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President Maithripala Sirisena Has Received WHO's Excellence In Public Health Award

The Director Of World Health Organization for South Asia Region Dr.Poonam Ketrapal Singh has today (05)presented the Sri Lanka's President Maithripala Sirisena the Excellence In Public Health Award by the WHO South East Asia Region for his Remarkable Role In Public Health Gains. 

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..

Attorney General's Department To File A Case Against Former JMO Dr.Ananda Samarasekera

The Attorney General's Department has today (05)informed the Colombo Magistrate Court that a case will be filed against former Judicial Medical Officer in Colombo Dr.Ananda Ssmarasekera under the Public Property Act regarding the murder of former Sri Lankan Rugby Player Wasim Thajudeen.

The Attorney General's Department made this observation when the case on the murder of Former Rugby Player Thajudeen was taken up for hearing today.

The legal case will be filed against former Colombo JMO Dr.Samarasekera as several bones and other body parts of former Rugby Player Thajudeen had gone missing the Court has informed.

The Criminal Investigations Department (CID)has earlier informed the Magistrate Court that the death of former Rugby Player Thajudeen was not an accidental one.

WHO To Announce Sri Lanka As A Malaria Free Country Tomorrow (06)

Dr.Poonam addressing the Press Briefing

The World Health Organization (WHO) is due to announce Sri Lanka as a country free from Malaria and award the Malaria Elimination Certificate tomorrow (06) according to Director of World Health Organization for South East Asia Region Dr.Poonam Ketrapal Singh.

The Malaria Elimination Certificate will be awarded to Sri Lanka's Health Minister Dr.Rajitha Senaratne during the ongoing Health Minister's Summit of the South and South Eastern Asia Region in Colombo tomorrow Dr.Poonam has stated during the press briefing held at Nelum Pokuna theater regarding the  summit this morning.

As no indigenous case of Malaria has been reported from the country during the last three years Sri Lanka has recently applied from the WHO for Malaria Elimination Certificate.

Sri Lanka has received the Filariasis Elimination Certificate from WHO on 21st of July.