Sri Lanka has long provided free medical education. To address the disparities in education prevailing between different ...

Sri Lanka’s only fee-based state hospital and tertiary referral centre is Sri Jayewardenapura General Hospital (SJGH). Founded in 1983 as a state-owned enterprise (SOE) and funded in part by the ...

At the end of 2014 the five leading firms – the Dr Neville Fernando Teaching Hospital (NFTH); Asiri Hospital Holdings, owned by conglomerate Softlogic Holdings and bought into by private equity firm ...

Specialised clinical services in public hospitals across Sri Lanka have reportedly been stopped due to the shortage of doctors. ... The cost of MRI scan in a private hospital costs over 12,000 rupees.

Sri Lankan government doctors protest against the government near the National Hospital in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on April 6, 2022, carrying placards that read ‘No medicines’ and ‘Health ...

Surgery equipment, life-saving drugs in Sri Lanka's hospitals nearly exhausted ... "Doctors asked me to buy medicines from a private pharmacy, but I don't have money," Ms Mary, 70, said.