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Healthcare professional bodies make urgent recommendations to avoid COVID disaster

In a letter to the President, the Sri Lanka Medical Association (SLMA), the Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA), the Association of Medical Specialists (AMS), together with the SLMA Intercollegiate Committee (SMIC) has made several recommendations in a bid to minimize COVID infections and deaths in the near future. “We wish to emphasise that all healthcare resources are being overwhelmed, as indicated by the rapid increase in the utilisation of all health sector beds and healthcare facilities by COVID patients. The number requiring oxygen is very quickly and exponentially rising while waiting for the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and hospital beds is also occurring,” the letter states.

World Bank approves USD 80 5 mn to help Sri Lanka to access Covid-19 vaccines

The World Bank (WB) has recently approved $80.5 million additional financing to help Sri Lanka access and distribute fairly COVID-19 vaccines and to strengthen the country’s vaccination system and pandemic response. This additional finance builds on the $217.56 million Sri Lanka COVID-19 Emergency Response and Pandemic Preparedness Project, which was approved in April 2020, the WB said in a statement. This new financing will help purchase vaccines to cover approximately 4 million people (18 percent of Sri Lanka’s population). In addition, it will cover the costs of deploying safe and effective vaccines to 20 percent of Sri Lanka’s population to meet the target of vaccinating at least 60 percent of its population. This additional financing will help implement the National Vaccine Deployment Plan of the Ministry of Health (MOH).

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