Sri Lanka alerted of A1H1

Sri Lanka health sector is alerted on New Influenza (A1H1) with a death reported from Mahamodara hospital in Galle.

A patient who had not responded to ICU treatments given to pneumonia died in Mahamodara hospital yesterday. Health authorities suspect the patient sufered from A1H1.

However, the matter has not been confirmed and the investigations are underway, hospital sources say. A time of a week is expected to verify the cause of death of the patient.

Meanwhile, Kamala Jayasinghe, the Director of Medical Supply Unit, said that the Ministry of Health has sufficient stocks of medication needed in case of a sudden eruption of A1H1.


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Sri Lanka exports surgical gloves and imports surgical gloves

Sri Lanka Minister of Health Maithripala Sirisena has directed Ministry officials to stop import of surgical gloves and purchase them from the local producers, Ministry of Health sources say.

Two Sri Lankan companies produce surgical gloves for exportation. They use local raw materials, rubber, for the production of surgical gloves. They supply for high standard orders. We exported surgical gloves and imported surgical gloves.

Now, the Ministry of Health says that purchasing surgical gloves from these producers will save a massive amount of foreign exchange. What a finding!

Sri Lanka Department of Health spends around a billion rupees annually to import surgical gloves for the use in government hospitals. This decision is to be enacted since this year.

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Hospital Health Information Management System for Sri Lanka's health sector

Information and Computing Technology Agency (ICTA) of the Sri Lanka Regional Director of Health Services- Kegalle together with Lunar Technologies have introduced a free and open-source software system used to store and retrieve a simple patient medical record.

The software is named as Hospital Health Information Management System (HHIMS).

Designed mainly for Sri Lanka government hospitals, it has been currently installed in the out-patient and admission sections of over 30 hospitals in Sri Lanka.

When installed on a computer server in a hospital, it can be accessed via a local area network in the out-patient department, the clinics, the wards and other places such as operating theaters, laboratories and medical record departments.

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