Lina Spiro begins operations as Sri Lanka’s first Metered-Dose Inhaler manufacturing plant
January, 26, 2021
Subsidiary of Sunshine Healthcare Lanka, the first fully-integrated local healthcare company in Sri Lanka
Sunshine Healthcare Lanka (SHL), the healthcare arm of the diversified conglomerate Sunshine Holdings PLC (CSE: SUN), officially commenced the operations of its subsidiary, Lina Spiro (Pvt) Ltd, Sri Lanka’s first Metered-Dose Inhaler (MDI) manufacturing plant in Kadawatha today. The State Minister of Production, Supply and Regulation of Pharmaceuticals, Prof. Channa Jayasumana ceremoniously declared open the facility in the presence of senior officials from Sunshine Holdings, Akbar Brothers, National Medicines Regulatory Authority (NMRA), State Pharmaceutical Corporation (SPC), Medical Supplies Division (MSD), State Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Corporation (SPMC) and other public and private healthcare institutions.
Posted on January 23rd, 2021
By Rohana R. Wasala
We
have all read or heard Aesop’s fable ‘The Man, the Boy, and the Donkey’: A man
and his young son set out taking their donkey to market to sell it there.
Listening to different censorious comments of a number of people they
encountered on the road, they first rode the animal, then they carried it.
First the man rode the horse, then the boy, then both of them together, and
finally, they started carrying the donkey tied to a pole by its legs; while
passing a bridge over a river, the donkey struggled to kick himself free, which
The Island editorial (28/12) titled ‘Muck, bucks and impunity’ made me sad and even angry. Sad because this little land of ours cannot take it anymore. It is being battered from all sides: deforestation, serene beaches are turned into hotels, rivers are losing their precious sand, wildlife is threatened by encroachments into their natural habitats for the sake of development, and garbage and rubbish is dumped almost everywhere with absolutely no concern for the environment and, on and on.
How can a human being stoop so low: importing foreign waste and dumping it in his country? Now, we all know who (or the majority of them) can be behind these ugly deals, don’t we, anyway?
Another made locally made drug under the “New Medicines for a New Country” programme was launched by the State Pharmaceuticals Manufacturing Corporation (SPMC) yesterday. The first batch of the new product, Flucloxacillin was handed over to Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa by State Minister of Production, Supply and Regulation of Pharmaceuticals Prof. Channa Jayasumana. Health