The Minister of Health and Mass Media, Dr. Nalinda Jayatissa has attended the Commonwealth Health Coordination Forum held in Geneva, Switzerland, on the sidelines of the 79th World Health Assembly.<\/p>\n
The forum brought together health ministers and senior health officials from Commonwealth countries, the Ministry of Health said in a statement. The forum was held under the theme \u201cShaping the future of cancer across the Commonwealth.\u201d<\/p>\n
The main objective of the forum was to develop a joint plan for cancer control among Commonwealth countries, based on the recommendations of the Lancet Oncology Commonwealth report.<\/p>\n
The forum was organised by the Commonwealth Secretariat and chaired by former Guyanese Health Minister H.E. Leslie Ramsammy.<\/p>\n
Minister Jayatissa represented Sri Lanka in his capacity as Minister of Health and Mass Media and as Chair of the WHO Regional Committee for South-East Asia.<\/p>\n
He was joined by Secretary to the Ministry of Health and Mass Media, Dr. Anil Jasinghe; Deputy Director General of the Ministry of Health and Mass Media, Dr. S. Sridharan; Sri Lanka\u2019s Permanent Representative in Geneva, Sumith Dassanayake; and several senior officials from Sri Lanka\u2019s health sector.<\/p>\n
The 79th World Health Assembly is being held at the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva and will continue until 23 May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Minister of Health and Mass Media, Dr. Nalinda Jayatissa has attended the Commonwealth Health Coordination Forum held…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[36253,36252,36254,36273,36277,16875,36274,36285,36261,36262,36267,36286,36265,871,65,36264,34510,36280,36282,36260,36255,36258,36281,36263,36279,36266,36271,36269,36270,36272,36278,9700,16859,36257,36276,36259,36251,36275,36256,36284,36268,36283],"class_list":["post-66897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-geneva","tag-ada-derana","tag-adaderana","tag-adaderana-lk","tag-anurakumaradissanayaka","tag-aragalaya","tag-breaking-news-in-sri-lanka","tag-colombo","tag-colombo-stock-exchange","tag-corona","tag-covid","tag-cricket","tag-debt-restructuring","tag-election2024","tag-entertainment","tag-geneva","tag-gotabayarajapaksa","tag-imf","tag-ipl","tag-kusal-mendis","tag-la-adaderana-lk","tag-lankan-news","tag-latest-sri-lankan-news","tag-lpl","tag-mahindarajapaksa","tag-matheesha-pathirana","tag-narcotics","tag-npp","tag-ranilwickremesinge","tag-sajithpremadasa","tag-sjb","tag-slc","tag-sri-lanka","tag-sri-lanka-business-news","tag-sri-lanka-gossip","tag-sri-lanka-gossip-news","tag-sri-lanka-hot-news","tag-sri-lanka-news","tag-sri-lanka-political-news","tag-sri-lanka-sports-news","tag-sri-lanka-trending-news","tag-t20i-world-cup-2024","tag-viral-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}