MINISTRY OF HEALTH

Sri Lanka

Helth Of Ministry
 

NEWS UPDATES

07

SEP

SPMC donates 3.8 million worth medical equipment Read More

15

SEP

WHO certifies Sri Lanka malaria-free Read More

13

OCT

A special circular to curb any misuse of free stents for cardiac patients Read More

26

OCT

“HIV/AIDS Read More

26

OCT

Pharmaceutical companies Read More

31

OCT

MOU between Sri Lanka and China: To disclose mystery of CKDu Read More

01

NOV

Bone marrow transplant surgeries at Hope Hospital Read More

07

NOV

World Conference on Lung Health focuses on TB and Tobacco Read More

07

NOV

Pictorial warnings also to be included in products like cigars Read More

11

NOV

Appointment of new dental surgeons Read More

06

JUN

Pay attention during flood…… Read More

22

JUN

Are you aware of Dengue ? Read More

20

JUL

Nomination for Procument Capacity Building Programmes in Public Sector Read More

29

AUG

National Health Research Symposium (NHRS) 2017 Read More

25

OCT

The Global Conference on Non-Communicable Disease to Call for Accelerated Action on NCDs Read More

25

OCT

Opening Ceremony of the National Epilepsy Centre - 24th Oct 2017 Read More

30

OCT

Reaching the Last Mile: Mobilizing Together to Eliminate Infectious Diseases at the Abu Dhabi Global Market on November 15, 2017 Read More

06

NOV

Appointment of Intern Medical Officers Main Batch (2010-2011 Intake) Read More

07

NOV

First Who Global Ministerial Conference : Ending TB in the Sustainable Development Era 16 – 17 November 2017 @ Moscow Read More

11

DEC

Ministerial Roundtable on Accelerating Elimination of Malaria in the South-East Asia Region, 29 November 2017, New Delhi - Malaria elimination in Sri Lanka –Case Study Read More

11

DEC

On the advice of Hon. Minster of Health, Nutrition & Indigenous Medicine, arrangements are being made to perform cataract surgeries after 4.00 pm in government hospitals Read More

11

DEC

On the advice of Dr Rajitha Senarathne, Hon. Minster of Health, Nutrition & Indigenous Medicine , the maximum cash limit( of Rs1.5 million) to purchase of drugs for a cancer patient has been removed. This enables patients to have lifelong chemotherapy Read More

22

DEC

Laying the Foundation Stone of Faculty of Nursing University of Colombo Read More

28

DEC

International Award for New Ambulance Services in Sri Lanka Read More

31

DEC

A Message for the New Year from the Health Minister Read More

09

JAN

Signing Agreements for the Construction of the First Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Zone in Sri Lanka Read More

22

JAN

"Life TV" The First National Health Channel Launched Read More

23

JAN

WHO DG Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at the opening of the 142nd session of the WHO Executive Board Read More

29

JAN

Laying Foundation Stone for New Ward Complex of Base Hospital Beruwala Read More

19

FEB

Organ Donor Day 2018 Read More

02

MAR

Commencement of The HealthCare Exhibition Read More

05

MAR

Communique by Ministry of Health Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine regarding the issue of ‘sterilizing tablets’ raised by media Read More

29

MAR

First SAARC Non Communicable Diseases Conference 31st March and 1st April 2018 Colombo, Sri Lanka Read More

01

APR

First Annual NCD meeting of SAARC Countries: Address by Hon Minster of Health Read More

09

APR

World Health Day 2018 : Address by Hon Minster of Health Read More

02

MAY

Cuba pledged to support Sri Lanka’s health sector Read More

02

MAY

Health Minister Received Gold Award...... Read More

21

MAY

Sri Lanka's healthcare system and leadership praised in Geneva Read More

23

MAY

Patient Safety initiatives in Sri Lanka towards achieving Universal Health Coverage Read More

25

MAY

71 st World Health Assembly, Geneva, Address by Hon. Dr Rajitha Senaratne Read More

06

AUG

Laying of Foundation Stone for Nursing Faculty Accommodation, Playground and Swimming pool at the Premises of Colombo East Base Hospital Read More

02

SEP

The cost of medicines and medical equipment including 10 very expensive drugs will be reduced. Read More

11

OCT

Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit - London Read More

10

JAN

MoU signed for the project for transplanting kidney and other organs of brain dead patients to patients needing organs. Read More

10

JAN

National Dengue Control Week , 11th – 12th January 2019 Read More

15

JAN

පිළිකා ප්‍රතිකාර ලීනියර් ඇක්සලේටර් යන්ත්‍ර ආනයනය කිරිම පසුගිය රජය සිදු කළ මහා පරිමාණ දුෂිත ගණූදෙනුවක් සුව ඇමැති කියයි. Read More

18

JAN

Ratnapura Provincial General Hospital Upgraded to Teaching Hospital Read More

19

JAN

152 New ambulances which worth 2850 million handing over to SL Health Service Read More

23

JAN

Executive Board, 144th session - World Health Organization Read More

27

JAN

Executive Board, 144th Session - World Health Organization, Address by Hon. Dr Rajitha Senaratne Read More

29

JAN

Health Ministry extends colour scheme from sweetened drinks to solid food Read More

31

JAN

Nurses Graduation Ceremony -1608 Nursing Officers Join the Government Healthcare Service Read More

06

FEB

Appointment of 2150 new health employees to the state health sector Read More

13

FEB

Upgrading Project for Health Facilities at Selected Hospital under Chinese Assistance ,Proposed 3 story Building at Base Hospital Sammanthurai Read More

15

FEB

Launching of New Accident and Emergency Treatment Unit at Teaching Hospital Jaffna Read More

05

MAR

The Appointment letters awarding ceremony of Dental Surgeons - 2019 Read More

11

MAR

Laying of Foundation Stone for New Ward Complex at Base Hospital Medirigiriya Read More

19

MAR

Food (colour coding for sugar salt and fat) Regulations 2019 Read More

21

MAR

Opening the New ward Complex for Provincial Ayurvedic Hospital, North Central Province Read More

26

MAR

5 Percent Discounts for the clergy by the SPC Read More

27

MAR

Appointment of 103 New Dental Surgeons to the State Health Sector Read More

01

APR

National Food Safety Week from April 01 to 07 Read More

02

APR

Launch of the Fundraiser for the Purchase of Tomotherapy and Liner Accelerator Machine to Apeksha Hospital, Maharagama Read More

06

APR

Laying of foundation stone for the 11th Pharmaceutical Factory Read More

11

APR

Health Ministry Distributed 118 New Ford Ambulances to Government Hospitals Read More

24

APR

UPDATE ON FOREIGN NATIONAL CASUALTIES AT EXPLOSIONS IN SRI LANKA Read More

26

APR

Press Release – Director General of Health Services Read More

16

MAY

Seventy-Second World Health Assembly 20 - 28 May 2019 Read More

23

MAY

Seventy Second World Health Assembly, Geneva; Address by Hon. Dr Rajitha Senaratne, Read More

24

MAY

Sri Lanka excels in stillbirth and early neonatal death reduction Read More

30

MAY

Hon Dr. Rajitha Senaratne Selected as the Deputy Chairman of WHO Read More

11

JUN

නෙවිල් ප්‍රනාන්දු රෝහල පෞද්ගලික රෝහලක් නොව, රජය විසින් පවත්වාගෙන යනු ලබන රෝහලකි. - මාධ්‍ය ප්‍රකාශණය Read More

14

JUN

Opening of the state-of-the-art “Suraksha” Children’s Center at the Negombo District General Hospital Read More

18

JUN

The serious harm from granting licenses to import cigarettes to Sri Lanka Read More

11

JUL

Sri Lanka successfully eliminates measles: WHO Read More

18

JUL

Opening of New District General Hospital Nuwara Eliya Read More

10

AUG

Avoid Aspirin and Other Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs and Steroids for Fever Read More

10

AUG

ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ප්‍රථමවරට එන්ඩොස්කොපි යන්ත්‍ර 20 ක් සුව ඇමති අතින් රෝහල් පද්ධතියට Read More

19

AUG

බදුල්ලේ හිස් ඖෂධ කුප්පි අසුරා ඇත්තේ, රෝහලට අයත් අපහරණ ගබඩාවකයි - සෞඛ්‍ය සේවා අධ්‍යක්ෂ ජනරාල් කරුණු පහදයි. Read More

29

AUG

Pre-Congress Workshop on Qualitative Research Read More

02

SEP

72nd WHO Regional Committee for South-East Asia, 2-6 September 2019, India Read More

03

SEP

Hon Minister Addressed the 72 WHO RC for South-East Asia - New Delhi, India Read More

07

OCT

National Health Research Symposium 2019, 22 - 23 October 2019 | Waters Edge Hotel, Colombo - Sri Lanka Read More

08

OCT

ඖෂධ මාෆියාව විසින් රටට අහිමි කළ මහාචාර්ය සේනක බිබිලේ ගුණානුස්මරණ උළෙල හෙට. Read More

11

OCT

World Sight Day 2019 Read More

09

DEC

අත්‍යාවශ්‍ය පිළිකා ඖෂධ ලබාදීමට සෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශයෙන් පියවර.. රුපියල් මිලියන 1000 ක ප්‍රතිපාදන මහා භාණ්ඩාගාරයෙන්. Read More

30

OCT

Special Mosquito Control Campaign, October 31 – November 02 Read More

06

NOV

පසුගිය වසර 03 ට උතුරේ සෞඛ්‍ය සංවර්ධනයට පමණක් රුපියල් මිලියන 35000 ක් වියදම් කර තිබෙනවා.... Read More

22

NOV

Hon. (Mrs.) Pavithra Wanniarachchi assumed duties as the Minister of Health, Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine Read More

29

NOV

Assumption of duties by the new secretary of Ministry of Health, Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine Mrs. P.S.M. Charles Read More

29

NOV

ලෝක සෞඛ්‍ය සංවිධානයේ ශ්‍රි ලංකා නේවාසික නියෝජිතවරිය සෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍යවරිය හමු වේ. Read More

16

DEC

Elimination of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV and Syphilis Read More

16

DEC

WHO Global Meeting to Accelerate on NCD and Mental Health Address by Hon. Minister of Health Sri Lanka- Mrs. Pavithra Wanniarachchi - Oman, Muscat Read More

01

JAN

Mrs. Bhadrani Jayawardena assumed duties as the secretary of Ministry of Health and Indigenous Medical Services Read More

02

JAN

Another state hospital to go digital with home-grown system Read More

08

JAN

2020 වසරේ ඩෙංගු මර්දන වැඩසටහන්වල සමාරම්භක උත්සවය ගාල්ල ධීවර වරාය පරිශ්‍රය කේන්ද්‍ර කර ගනිමින් ඇරඹේ. Read More

09

JAN

The explanation by the Director General of Health Services Dr. Anil Jasinghe about the fake news of Influenza circulated now a days by the social media Read More

16

JAN

චීන ආධාර යටතේ ලංකාවේ ක්‍රියාත්මක සංවර්ධන ව්‍යාපෘති වල ප්‍රගතිය නිරීක්ෂණය කළ චීන නියෝජිතයින් සුව ඇමතිනිය හමුවෙයි Read More

27

JAN

Press Release - Novel Coronavirus Infection Read More

27

JAN

කොරෝනා වෛරසය පැතිරීම වැළැක්වීමට ගරු ජනාධිපතිතුමාගේ උපදෙසින් ජාතික ක්‍රියාකාරී කමිටුවක්. Read More

20

FEB

සෞඛ්‍ය හා දේශීය වෛද්‍ය සේවා, කාන්තා හා ළමා කටයුතු සහ සමාජ ආරක්ෂණ අමාත්‍යංශයේ මෙහෙයවීමෙන් පවත්වනු ලබන “පොදු ජන සරණී” ජංගම සමාජ සත්කාරක වැඩසටහන ලබන 22 දින ඇඹිලිපිටිය ජනාධිපති මධ්‍ය මහා විද්‍යාලයේ දී. Read More

28

JAN

කොරෝනා වෛරසය පැතිරීම වැළැක්වීමට ගෙන ඇති ක්‍රියාමාර්ග සොයාබැලීමට සෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍යවරිය කටුනායක ගුවන් තොටුපලේ හදිසි නිරීක්ෂණක Read More

05

MAR

හැඳල ලාදුරු රෝහල ප්‍රථම නිරෝධායන මධ්‍යස්ථානය බවට පත් කෙරේ. Read More

19

MAR

Health Promotion Bureau - COVID - 19 Read More

19

MAR

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Read More

10

NOV

COVID -19 Information (Epidemiology Unit) Read More

12

NOV

New - COVID-19 Related Circulars & Letters Read More

17

NOV

Latest COVID -19 Related Guidelines Read More

04

DEC

Report to the Hon. Minister of Health by the Committee Appointed to Inquire in to Complaints Related to the Sri Lanka Medical Council (SLMC) 10th November 2020. Read More

12

JAN

Latest COVID -19 Related Guidelines Read More

22

JAN

Information Security Guideline for Healthcare Institutions (Draft) Read More

26

MAY

Donate Now - Sri Lanka Needs You Read More

25

AUG

COVID-19 Smart Vaccine Certificate Read More

18

AUG

New - COVID-19 Related Circulars & Letters Read More