Women MPs meet former NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Source:Dailymirror Sri Lankan Women Parliamentarians’ Caucus of Sri Lanka who are on a study visit to New Zealand, met the former Prime Ministers of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern and Helen Clark recently, a statement from the parliamentary media division said. MPs  Dr. Sudarshini Fernandopulle,  Sitha Arambepola,  Rohini Kumari Wijeratne,   Pavithradevi Vanniarachchi,  Geetha Samanmalee Kumarasinghe,  Thalatha Athukorala,  Kokila Gunawardena,  Mudita Prishanthi,  Rajika Wickramasinghe,  Manjula Dissanayake,  (Dr.) Harini Amarasuriya as well as the Secretary General of Parliament Kushani Rohanadeera, Assistant Director (Administration) Indira Dissanayake and Media Manager of Parliament Nimmi Hathiyaldeniya were present on this occasion. ...

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COVID-19: HELA VEDEKAMA Vs WESTERN MEDICINE-by Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Source:Dailynews At long last Ayurveda Hospitals are permitted to treat the COVID-19 affected patients. This declaration came from State by Minister of Primary Health Care, Epidemics and COVID Disease Control, Dr Sudarshini Fernandopulle. The State Minister of Indigenous Medicine Promotion and Rural and Ayurveda Hospitals Development stated that all coronavirus patients would be treated with normal ‘Deseeya’ (local) treatments such as ‘Kanda’ (porridge), boiled coriander water and inhaling steam-vapour of various kind etc. Yet again, some of the newspapers give a contradictory version regarding this matter. Various arguments for and against Western medicine vs Hela Veda Kama (Hereditary treatment coming down from generation to generation), particularly with the eruption of the COVID-19 pandemic, surfaced, from March 2020, due to the lack of medicine or a vaccine to cure the Coronavirus. Not a single person expected such a calamity to befall ...

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Ayurvedic hospitals to admit Covid-19 patients-BY UDITHA KUMARASINGHE Source:Sundayobserver State Minister of Indigenous Medicine Promotion, Rural and Ayurvedic Hospitals Development and Community Health Sisira Jayakody said a decision has been taken to convert all 118 Ayurvedic hospitals countrywide into intermediate care centres that have a capacity of over 5,000 beds to treat Covid-19 patients. Discussions have already been conducted to seek the assistance of over 1,000 doctors and nursing staff in the Ayurvedic hospital system on the Government’s program to combat the Covid-19 pandemic, he told the Sunday Observer yesterday. State Minister Jayakody also held a crucial discussion with State Minister of Primary Health Care, Epidemics and COVID Disease Control Dr. Sudarshini Fernandopulle on Thursday (May 6) to expedite the use of the 5,000 beds in the Ayurvedic hospital system to manage the third wave of Covid-19. ...

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