Sri Lanka Medical Association Presidential Address 2006: Stress the ogre in ICU

Intensive Care has been defined as a service for patients with potentially recoverable diseases, who can benefit from more detailed observation and treatment that is generally available in the standard wards and departments Sipby 1989.

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Southern history re-examined - Part 3: Kelaniya becomes part of Magama kingdom

By about 225 BC when Magama had emerged as the most powerful principality of the South, history speaks of yet another politically important kingdom - Kelaniya. Dr. S. Paranavitana going by a rock inscription titled 'Kelanika Thisa' found near the eastern coast says that ancient Kelaniya was located around present Heda oya, close to coastal Paanama in the east.

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