Responding to an urgent request from the Government of Sri Lanka, India has gifted 50,000 ampoules of Furosemide injection 20mg/2ml to cater to its shortage in Sri Lankan hospitals in the immediate term.
The consignment was today handed over by the High Commissioner of India to Sri Lanka Santosh Jha to the Minister of Health and Mass Media of Sri Lanka, Dr. Nalinda Jayatissa at an event held at the Ministry of Health.
Dr Anil Jasinghe, Secretary, Ministry of Health, Dr. Dedunu Dias, Director, Medical Supply Division, and other senior officials from Government of Sri Lanka also attended the event.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, India supplied over 25 tons of medicines on a special aircraft to Sri Lanka in May 2020; gifted 500,000 doses of Covishield vaccine in January 2021; and 1 lakh Rapid Antigen Test kits in February 2022.
A British national had been arrested over attempting to smuggle in the largest haul of kush( drugs) from Thailand, customs said.
Popular grade five tuition teacher, Hayeshika Fernando wanted over assaulting a 21 year old youth was granted bail today after she surrendered to courts.
The Government of Sri Lanka maintains that the allegation of genocide during the final phase of the conflict in Sri Lanka is unsubstantiated by any credible authority, either nationally or internationally, and is based on misleading information. Sri Lanka firmly rejects this false narrative and believes it has been propagated primarily for electoral gains within Canada.
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