Health Ministrt Keheliya Rambukwella,had instructed the Health officials to order drugs for a period of three months at once instead of odering drugs for one month at once.
Health Minister has instructed health officials on this due to the drug shortage prevails in many hospitals these days.
Seven Sri Lankan Medical Students attached to the Kupyansk Medical College in Ukraine's Kharkiv region captured by Russian Soldiers in last March were rescued by Ukrainian forces after liberating the region, the Russian Media had announced .
According to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky seven citizens of Sri Lanka who are attached to the Kupyansk Medical College had been rescued during the operation .They had been captured by Russian soldiers and subsequently kept in a basement .
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Sri Lanka Cricket Board had yesterday (16) handed over a cheque of US Dollars 500,000 to the President Ranil Wikramasinghe to purchase essentials for the Apeksha Hospital in Maharagama.
This Cheque was handed over during the felicitation ceremony held in Colombo last night for the Winners of Cricket, Netball teams and Commonwealth games medalists under the patronage of the President ..
Ptesident Ranil Wikramasinghe had left the Country in wee hours of this morning to attend the Royal funeral of Queen Elizabeth the second who died on 08th of September at the age of 96.
A Group headed by President Wikramasinghe had left to England from an Emirates flight which travels to London via Dubai according to the Sources .This is the first official visit in abroad of president after assuming his office .He is due to return to the country on next Tuesday (20).
Sri Lanka Navy had arrested 26 locals who had tried to migrate to another country illegally from a Dingy and Multi trawler boat yesterday (16) at the Northern sea area in Veththalkerni.
Navy had handed over the 26 persons arrested imcluding 12 males and 05 children along with the two Dingy and Multi trawler boats which they have used to travel to the Maradankerni police for a legal action according to the Navy .
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