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Securing a vaccine against COVID-19 is a matter of top priority as Sri Lanka is nearing 50,000 confirmed Covid-19 cases, Dr L.A Ranasinghe, President of the Association of Medical Specialists (AMS) has said. Dr. Ranasinghe has said in a media statement: “The death toll is on the rise. Economy has received a death blow. However, […]
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An imaginative leap in the Senaka Bibile tradition Daily News (via HT Media Ltd.)
The SPMC (State Pharmaceuticals Manufacturing Corporation) will be manufacturing antibiotics in Sri Lanka soon. Though the news item was published in newspapers last week without much fanfare, this does not signify any run of the mill ordinary policy.
Since Prof. Senaka Bibile conceived his plan for getting down affordable generic drugs – and since he started eschewing the overuse of various branded pharmaceuticals after establishing a drug formulary – Sri Lanka should have had a drug policy that was rationalized, and was operating on behalf of the poor.