President Wickremesinghe issued an extraordinary gazette notification declaring the postal service an essential public service, as postal workers in the country went on strike against the decision to turn post offices in Nuwara Eliya and Kandy into hotels

The Association of Ambulance Drivers of the Government Health Service has drawn attention to the shortage of qualified an in-force drivers within the Sri Lankan government hospital system

The Vedda, an indigenous group in Sri Lanka, have been found to have a significant genetic link to the ethnic populations of India, according to scientists at the CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology and four other research institutes

Sri Lanka's "1990 Suwa Seriya" free ambulance service has been praised by the World Bank for saving countless lives by providing citizens with the highest level of pre-hospital care