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The following is a response former Central Bank Governor, Arjuna Mahendran, has sent for publication: Dear Sir, You have mentioned in the editorial of The Island of Friday 19 August 2022 that (quote) former Central Bank Governor Arjuna Mahendran, who fled the country … (unquote). This is factually incorrect. It is on record of the […]
Most, if not all, practitioners of Medicine in Sri Lanka, I believe, would surely have come across patients presenting with the above complaint. I find this rather strange, since, for over two decades of practicing medicine outside Sri Lanka, I have never, (that’s right, never) not once, had a patient complaining of “Gastritis”. Thus, this […]
In my view, the present unique in the world system of INDISCRIMINATE or EQUITABLE supply of drugs, needs to be reviewed by the Government as the drug bill is on an incessant upward trend, and the delivery programme is intricate, complex and complicated and ridden with corrupt and shady practices. Inbuilt and interwoven malpractices and poor drug […]
We welcome the Private Member’s Bill by Premnath Dolawatte MP introduced today, August 24, 2022, to decriminalise same sex sexual activity between consenting adults by amending sections 365 and 365A of the Penal Code. However, we note that the Bill comes amid a number of disturbing developments that directly impact LGBTQI+ Sri Lankans: *The Government […]