Sri Lankan patients wait for treatment at a government hospital in Colombo on March 1, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP)
COLOMBO – Sri Lanka's Health Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said on Monday that he has appointed a five-member committee to conduct a full investigation into deaths that have occurred in government hospitals recently.
In recent months, several deaths were reported in Sri Lanka's government hospitals, alleged to have been caused by substandard medicine.
Rambukwella told journalists here that the committee, headed by Chandima Jeewandara of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, comprised experts who have extensive knowledge and understanding of both medicine and nursing, as well as allergies.
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The minister added that the report given by this committee would be helpful in providing better health services to the people in the hospital system in the country.