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The Ministry of Health [4] (Sinhala: සෞඛ්ය අමාත්යාංශය, romanized: Saukhya Amāthyānshaya; Tamil: சுகாதார அமைச்சு, romanized: Cukātāra Amaiccu) is the central government ministry of Sri Lanka responsible for health. The ministry is responsible for formulating and implementing ...
Profession. Physician. Ramesh Pathirana is a Sri Lankan politician, a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka and is serving as the current Minister of Health. [1] He previously served as the Minister of Plantation Industries, Minister of Industries and Minister of Education. [2] He belongs to the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna. [3]
The president is the chief executive of the union government and the commander-in-chief of the Sri Lanka Armed Forces. [1] The powers, functions and duties of prior presidential offices, in addition to their relation with the prime minister and Government of Sri Lanka , have over time differed with the various constitutional documents since the ...
The president of Sri Lanka is the elected head of state and the chief executive of Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon). The president is a dominant political figure in the country. The office was created in 1972, as more of a ceremonial position. It was empowered with executive powers by the 1978 Constitution introduced by J. R. Jayewardene.
He was the general-secretary of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party and was Minister of Health until November 2014 when he announced his candidacy in the 2015 presidential election as the opposition coalition's "common candidate", thus leading to him running against party leader and incumbent president Mahinda Rajapaksa.
List of prime ministers of Sri Lanka. Top left: D. S. Senanayake became the first prime minister of Ceylon in 1947. Top right: Sirimavo Bandaranaike was the first female prime minister of Ceylon and also its longest-serving prime minister, holding the office for over 17 years on three separate occasions. Bottom left: Ranasinghe Premadasa was ...
In 2003, he was appointed Commandant, Sri Lanka Army Volunteer Force and in 2004 he was appointed Director Infantry, Deputy Chief of Staff and then Chief of Staff of the Sri Lanka Army. In December 2005 he was appointed Commander of the Army by president Mahinda Rajapaksa and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general. [41] Suicide bomb attack
Julie Jiyoon Chung ( Korean : 줄리 정, birth 1973 [ 2 ] ), birth name as Chung Ji-yoon ( Korean : 정지윤 ; Hanja : 鄭智允 ), [ 4 ][ 5 ][ 3 ] is a Korean-American diplomat who has served as the United States Ambassador to Sri Lanka since 2022. She previously served as Acting Assistant Secretary and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary ...