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Double trouble in Hospital

Defining hospital-associated or nosocomial infections, Consultant Microbiologist Dr. Rohan Chinniah who is a Senior Lecturer at the Colombo Medical Faculty says these are infections that were neither present nor incubating within a person at the time he/she is admitted to the health-care facility. “They may appear even after the patient is discharged.”

How I lead my life as a diabetic

Diabetes is a dreaded disease and its rate of incidence in Sri Lanka has reached alarming proportions in recent times. Though the health authorities are striving to make patients in particular and the public in general more aware of how to deal with it through awareness programmes, it seems many do not heed this advice and face amputation of limbs, loss of sight, renal and heart failure and other complications.