Unequal access to healthcare in Sri Lanka?
In the last two decades, there has been a steady erosion of the provision of free health care by a quickly spreading private health system. Middle class families are paying out-of-pocket or becoming dependent on health insurance schemes, while poorer families are being forced to access private health care in life and death matters. Chronic [...]
Keeping the wagon wheel in motion
These are busy days for the Country Music Foundation (CMF). It has been 27 years since they held their first flagship event –the Country Roads Concert for Children and the vibrant team has managed to keep the wagon wheel in motion. Amid the hubbub of preparations for this year’s concert on Sunday, October 11, the [...]
From fashion to food: An all-around couture experience at CFW 2015
It’s time to head down to Galle come October for fashion, food and much more. Yes, Colombo Fashion Week (CFW) which has over the past 12 years seen significant growth is back with its Resort wear edition. Now with two additional seasons to the main CFW show (Swim was launched this year), CFW, aiming to be [...]
Annual Nawa Kalakaruwo exhibition open
The George Keyt Foundation’s annual Nawa Kalakaruwo exhibition opened at the J.D.A. Perera Gallery on Horton Place, Colombo 7 on Friday. This exhibition of contemporary Sri Lankan art by emerging young artists will continue until October 1. The artists are drawn from all parts of the country and are chosen through the several exhibitions and [...]
M.A. Bakeer Markar memorial lecture
Imthiaz Bakeer Markar, a member of the board of governors of the Bakeer Markar Centre for National Unity, presenting a memento to Prof. Tariq Ramadan, a world renowned scholar, after he delivered the M.A. Bakeer Markar memorial lecture on Monday at the National Archives auditorium in Colombo.
The Vaccine Forum of Sri Lanka will hold its sixth annual symposium on Vaccines on October 4
Some of the topics include: Advances in vaccinology ( by Dr. Anil Dutta, Vice President, GSK Biologicals, Belgium), Cervical Cancer and HPV vaccines (by Dr. Anuj Walia, Regional Director, Asia Pacific, MSD), Changes in National Immunization Policy ( by Dr. Paba Palihawadana, Chief Epidemiologist, Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka), Measles Rubella and Congenital Rubella Syndrome [...]
SLLA conference marks 55th anniversary celebration
The growth of internet has transformed the landscape of information society and impacted all aspects of education and in this backdrop Library and Information Science (LIS) professionals have a major responsibility and greater role to play in the process of knowledge creation, organisation, storage, delivery and access, said the Director INFLIBNET Centre Gujarat, India, Dr. [...]
Russian Cultural Centre to screen episode of TV show shot in Sri Lanka
The Russian Cultural Centre was host to a special screening of the pilot episode of Jekyll and Hyde, a television show partly shot in Sri Lanka. The screening was organised by the Film Team in Sri Lanka, the production company that facilitated the show’s Lankan shooting schedule. Jekyll & Hyde is a 10-part drama series [...]
Remembering a prof’s service to medicine
It was an emotionally-charged ‘Valedictory meeting’ when high-level academics, both medical and non-medical, gathered at the New Lecture Hall of the august Colombo Medical Faculty on September 17 to bid adieu to former dean, mentor, colleague and friend, Prof. Rohan W. Jayasekara. While brief and powerful presentations were made to showcase how Prof. Jayasekara’s ‘innovative [...]
Tea and sympathy at Lanka’s Doha embassy
The doors of Sri Lanka’s embassy in the Qatari capital Doha are to be kept open 24 hours for runaway Sri Lankan housemaids to seek shelter and refuge, ambassador W.M. Karunadasa said. Any expatriate housemaid who seeks the shelter in the embassy would be welcomed at any time of the day, he said in a [...]