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The First Ever National Guidelines On Correct Use Of Antibiotics Has Launched In Sri Lanka Yesterday(17)

During the past decade the resistance rates for most of

the  organisms both in the. health care settings as well as in the community in Sri Lanka  have escalated at an alarming rate according to Director General Of Health Services Dr.Palitha Mahipala.

Addressing at the launching of   first ever National Guidelines on  "correct use of Antibiotics  to  prevent resistance  "introduced in Sri Lanka which  jointly  launched yesterday  (17) at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute in Colombo by World Health Organization (WHO) and Ministry of Health,Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine, Dr.Mahipala stressed that this is especially so for Gram negative organisms causing infections.

The most effective and practical mode of approach to minimize the problem is by having a national policy for the use of Antibiotics in the country he has stated.

As the International Antibiotic resistant awareness week had been announced from 14th to 20 th of November it is important to prevent Antibiotic resistance which is s major problem in Sri Lanka as well through using Antibiotics correctly the local Microbiologists have stated during yesterday's launch

Addressing at the event Minister of Health Dr.Rajitha Senatatne has stated that it's the drug companies that made Antibiotics which can be resistant for infections and  after that same companies manufacture drugs that fight against the resistance .

A Youth Was Killed And four Others Injured As Their Jeep Met With An Accident.

A youth was killed and four others were injured and

hospitalized  due to the Jeep they were travelling in veered off the road on Galgamuwa-Moragollagama road today (17).

A Buddhist Monk was also there among the four injured persons who were hospitalized following the incident.

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Airport Customs Officers Have Arrested Two Sri Lankans With 381 Illegal Cigarette Cartons

The Airport Customs Officers have arrested two Sri Lankans this morning (17) belonging to a same family while attempting to smuggle 381 Cigarette Cartons to Sri Lanka illegally at Katunayake Bandaranaike International Airport.

The two suspects arrived from Dubai had been arrested while attempting to smuggle the stock of illegal Cigarette Cartons worth around Rs.3.2 million by carrying a three year old child it has been reported.

The Suspects who are 29 and 32 years old hidden Cigarette Cartons in six of their luggage according to the Airport Customs officers.The suspectsreturned to the country after employed in Dubai for three years it has been revealed.

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