Nearly 394 cases of Thalassaemia identified
Ariyapala Wansathilake
Provincial Director of Health Kurunegala, Dr R M S K Ratnayake, said
that 394 cases of Thalassaemia have been identified in Kurunegala and
Puttalam recently.
He was addressing a Thalassaemia Workshop which was held at the
Kurunegala Health Ministry, presided by Provincial Minister Asoka
Wadigamangawa.
He said the government had to spend a large sum of money daily to
treat Thalassaemia patients, whose medicines were much more costly than
other medicines. He said that it was very difficult to manage a hospital
by depending only on government funds.
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