With Sri Lankan changing the control strategies and allowing a certain degree of community movement and more controlled actions are compulsory. Despite more than 3000 scientific articles published on covid-19 from January to April 2020, all evidence still suggests that […]
Rajarata University helps to expand national diagnostic capacity of COVID-19
With the increasing demand for COVID-19 testing in Sri Lanka, Anuradhapura COVID-19 centre capacity has been increased with the DoCM rt-PCR equipment. The public health research laboratory of DoCM was equipped with a Biorad CFX96 real-time PCR system with 5-channel […]
ECLIPSE Introduction
The introductory video for the ECLIPSE (Empowering Cutaneous Leishmaniasis patients: an Intervention Programme to reduce time to treatment and Stigma via community Education). The ECLIPSE is a multi country collaborative project and the DoCM, FMAS, RUSL will lead the Sri Lankan […]
Researchers predicts the need for long term strategies to contain COVID-19 in Sri Lanka
A group of Sri Lankans from Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Yale/ Rajarata University predicts that even with all strict control measures in place, the Sri Lankan COVID-19 outbreak will go on for at least 10-12 more weeks. […]
COVID-19 වසංගතය හමුවේ ගර්භනී මව්වරු සදහා …
ගර්භණි මවකට COVID-19 රෝගය වැළඳීම සමග ඇතිව තිබෙන ගැටලුවලට පිළිතුරු සෙවීම සහ මේ පිළිබද දැනුවත් කිරීම උදෙසා දැනට පවතින විද්යාත්මක දත්ත සහ සෞඛ්ය අමාත්යාංශ උපදෙස් වලට අනුකුල ගර්භනී මව්වරු සදහා වන උපදෙස් මාලාව…
නව කොරෝනා වෛරසයෙන් වැලකීම සඳහා….. Preventing COVID-19 outbreak in Sri Lanka….
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New insights into leptospirosis (Mee Una) in Sri Lanka
Researchers from Rajarata Leptospirosis Research Laboratory confirms multiple species of Leptospira causing human leptospirosis in Sri lanka. The leptospirosis research team from the Leptospirosis research laboratory, DoCM, FMAS revealed the presence of at least five different species of organisms causing […]
A new mosquito is threatening the malaria elimination status in Sri Lanka?
An invasive mosquito ..! Since 2016, vector surveillance programmes conducted by the Anti Malaria Campaign, Sri Lanka has revealed that Anopheles stephensi as the most common Anopheles species in Mannar. This mosquito is the main carrier for urban malaria in […]
Flashback 2019 DoCM.
Another eventful year has passed by and we would like to summarize the events, achievements and work of DoCM in the year 2019. Academic staff DoCM had several important milestones in 2019. Three new members joined the department, including the […]
Helping mothers and newborn babies in rural Anuradhapura
RaPCo “Kapakaru Ma-Piya” Programme The Department of Community Medicine, FMAS, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka with the help of faculty staff members has initiated a programme of helping hand on financial assistance to the needy pregnant mothers in Anuradhapura. During […]