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The $300 billion primary care market is being disrupted by nontraditional players. This report examines how the primary care landscape has changed, who these disruptors are, and why their business models are shaking up the status quo.
The Bank of Ceylon took the opportunity to join with the Sri Lanka Police Department to extend its support towards “COVID 19 Precaution awareness campaign” in locked-downed areas. The Bank deployed its “Branch on Wheels” mobile banking vehicle in order to provide essential banking services to people in these areas. This service will be following the schedule arranged by the Sri Lanka Police Department to cover the eight currently restricted areas. It was brought to notice that people were not able to fulfill their essential banking needs during the past week due to non-accessibility t...
(Continued from yesterday) The pandemic should have by now encouraged the provision of flexible work hours for older workers. Therefore company structures need to evolve so that younger workers can get promotions while retaining older skilled employees.We cannot afford to have young people without jobs. Extra income is also crucial to deal with healthcare, transport, living quarters and other essentials that become ever more expensive as people age. The proposal to increase the age to 60 must enable employers to retain the most productive employees until 60. But must also a...
The Sri Lanka Institute of Directors (SLID), in collaboration with its knowledge sharing partner Ernst & Young (EY), held a timely webinar discussion recently on “The Integrity Agenda – the Heightened Role of Boards”. The session focused on how directors could steer their companies with integrity in the current environment. The panel comprised of Sunil Wijesinha, chairman of United Motors PLC, Watawala Plantations PLC and RIL Property PLC, Murtaza Esufally, chairman of Hemas Hospitals, Hemas Pharmaceuticals, Managing Director of Morison PLC and Non-Executive chairman of the Center for P...
By Hiran H.Senewiratne Melstacorp shares started trading at Rs. 47.60 at the CSE yesterday and at the end of the day they moved up to Rs. 49.90. Meanwhile, shares in healthcare sector counters also appreciated when the government reportedly began discussing with private hospitals the possibility of treating Covid -19 patients in their institutions. Consequently, share prices in several listed private hospitals moved up. Asiri Hospital shares moved up by 20 percent. They moved up from Rs. 26.40 to Rs. 29.20, which was a Rs. 2.80 appreciation, Asiri Surgical shares moved up by Rs. 2.10 or 1...