Sri Lanka provides quality health services

Ranked first in world Health and Survival indicator:

With President Mahinda Rajapaksa assuming the second term of office on November 19, the country is poised to become the Wonder of Asia. In keeping with Mahinda Chintana, the Government has taken several action in the past five years to fulfill the healthcare needs of the people by upgrading health facilities in Sri Lanka. Re-constructing and upgrading hospitals by the Government in a number of areas, is a key aspect of this policy.

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‘Dammika’ was hardly an omission

The Morning Inspection - Malinda

A few days ago I wrote about a ‘get-together’. It was a sending-off party to a friend who was going overseas and also a celebration of friendships that had lasted 20 years and survived political disagreements, loyalty-shifts and the trajectories that personal lives take, sometimes dragging the relevant persons far away from the world of power and intrigue, betrayal and sacrifice, rhetoric and white lie. I gave that article the title ‘A Janatha Mithuro moment’ and referred in passing to an organization by that name which those who gathered that night had helped form or were part of.

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Where blind can see

Renton de Alwis - BACK TO BASICS

Lessons are learnt at all times and in all places. They are everywhere for us to pick from; at home, in school, on the streets, in encounters, in the forests, in the sky and in the oceans. This is the story of lessons learnt over the years, at different times in different doses, from a group of caring friends whom I admire very much. The most recent of them were learnt on the morning of November 19, 2010.

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