Covid-19 Home Care in Sri Lanka – What you need to know

It's been well over a year of battling Covid-19 and as we combat the 4th wave of disease in Sri Lanka, our healthcare systems are officially overwhelmed. In an effort to ensure that all Covid-19 patients in Sri Lanka get access to healthcare despite the large number of positive patients, there is now a home …

The Wisdom tooth – keep or remove?

For years (and years), I've been suffering from severe tooth/jaw pain which seems to come on when I get stressed out and unfortunately almost always coinciding with my exams! So throughout medical school and thereafter, it was expected that every time I was even mildly stressed, I would have an annoying and irritating gnawing pain …

COVID 19 – the background

Recent media coverage has been about nothing but the dreadful novel coronavirus that has caused a world-wide frenzy. Despite the global scale emergency panic, the WHO has recognised that since Sri Lanka has a well structured healthcare system, we are equipped well enough to deal with this new "tiny but mighty" beast. In the first …

Scribblings of a Medic CME – Midnight madness by Dr. Paba Atapattu

Medical wards in the government sector in Sri Lanka are mainly known for being overcrowded, but they are also possibly the best place for any medical student or intern doctor to learn. Handling a ward by yourself as an intern doctor in Sri Lanka for 6 months with no registrar doctors around will possibly have …

There’s nothing down about it!

Down syndrome is probably one of the most well known congenital genetic syndromes around and occurs relatively frequently at about 1 in every 1000 births. In my year of neonatology, every couple of weeks I would come across a baby with features of Down syndrome. Even though it has a strong correlation with advanced maternal …