Background COVID-19 pandemic has multifaceted impact on health, nutrition and wellbeing of families, specially those who are already living with poverty. In 2020, World Food Programme’s Nutrition-Sensitive Food Assistance for Assets Program in Sri Lanka has conducted a baseline survey […]
RAPCO researchers receive two more awards
Since its launch, Rajarata Pregnancy Cohort has received many national awards. The most recent addition to this list was for the research paper titled “Do You Know Why She is Worried?”: Fear Inducing Factors as Perceived by Pregnant Women in […]
Two new research papers on maternal health and leptospirosis
DoCM researchers has published two new papers in leading international peer reviewed, indexed journals this week. The first paper is on the household food insecurity (HFI). The team or researchers led by Pro.Thilini Agampodi has validated a simple self applied […]
New diagnostic thresholds for anemia in pregnancy
DoCM Policy Brief– We urge revision of present recommended threshold for anamia during the second trimester to be in par with new evidence based global recommendations. Key messages· 1. The global comparisons of prevalence of anaemia in pregnancy shows Sri Lanka […]
Thalassemia and anemia in pregnancy in Anuradhapura
The GEEPMD research team has produced compelling evidence through Rajarata Pregnancy Cohort (RaPCo) that the control of anemia in pregnancy in Anuradhapura district requires a different approach. RaPCo, the largest community based pregnancy cohort done in Sri lanka assessed the […]
DoCM,RUSL academics won five awards in CCPSL Annual Academic Sessions
Annual Academic sessions of CCPSL is the premier conference in Sri Lanka dedicated to public health research and academic work. The 25th Annual Academic Sessions of the College of Community Physicians of Sri Lanka (CCPSL) was held at Shangri-La Colombo, […]
DoCM,RUSL Researchers won best paper awards in SLMA 133rd Anniversary Medical Congress
The SLMA is the oldest professional medical association in Asia and Australasia, with a proud history that dates back to 1887. The 133rd Anniversary International Medical Congress of the Sri Lanka Medical Association was held on 24th-26th July as a virtual […]
GEEPMD Health Promotion e-book is launched
The health promotion e-book for pregnant mothers prepared as a part of GEEPPMD project is now available for download. This e-book is a main outcome of the GEEPMD project. Essential health messages from the first month to ninth month are […]
මගේ පුතාට කිරි ගඟුලයි ..!
ලෝක මව්කිරි දීමේ සතිය අගෝස්තු මස 1-7 දින වලට යෙදී තිබේ.රජරට වෛද්‍ය ප්‍රජා වෛද්‍ය දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව මගින් ප්‍රකාශිත “දස මසක සිහිනයට” ග්‍රන්ථයේ මව්කිරි පිළබඳව වූ කොටස මෙම සතියේ ඔබගේ දැනගැනීම පිණිස බෙදා ගනිමු.
කොරෝනා වසංගතය (COVID-19) සමයේ ගර්භණී ඔබ දැනගත යුතුම දේවල්..
මේ උපදෙස් මාලාව දැනට මෙම වසංගතය හා පවතින නවතම දැනුම සහ ශ්‍රී ලංකා සෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍යංශය ප්‍රකාශිත උපදෙස් මාලාව අනුව සකසා ඇත. ඉදිරියේදී පවතින තත්ව අනුව වසංගත රෝග විද්‍යා අංශය මගින් ප්‍රකාශනය කරන උපදෙස් අනුව ඔබගේ සෞඛ්‍ය වෛද්‍ය නිලධාරීතුමන් මේ උපදෙස් […]