The decision to temporarily halt all routine surgeries at the Teaching Hospital in Peradeniya has been reverted, the hospital’s director Dr. H.M. Arjuna Thilakarathna said today.

He explained that necessary arrangements were made to ensure the provision of required medicinal drugs and consumables by the Medical Supply Division of the Ministry of...

Showers or thundershowers will occur at several places in Western, Sabaragamuwa, Central and North-Western provinces and in Galle and Matara districts after 2.00 p.m., says the Department of Meteorology.

Fairly heavy showers above 50 mm can be expected in some places.

The general public is advised to take adequate precautions to minimize damages...

Sri Lanka and India signed six Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) on Monday (March 28) during a meeting between Indian External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar and his counterpart Prof. G.L. Peiris.

According to the Indian High Commission in Colombo, the following bilateral documents in diverse areas were signed by the two nations:

• MOU on i...

An Extraordinary Gazette has been issued by the Health Minister stipulating amended maximum retail prices for several medical devices including intraocular lenses, stents, blood glucose monitoring systems and pulse oximeters. 

The gazette further amends the regulations under the Medical Devices Pricing Regulations, No. 01 of 2017 published in the...