Plans to expand and popularize Homeopathy in Sri Lanka
The Ministry of Health and Mass Media plans to enhance the role of homeopathy in Sri Lanka’s healthcare system, aiming to make it more accessible and cost-effective for citizens, Health Minister Dr. Nalinda Jayatissa said during a visit to the government-owned Welisara Homeopathy Hospital.
The hospital provides daily treatments for conditions including pediatric and women’s health issues, respiratory diseases, skin disorders, chronic headaches, diabetes, and arthritis. Its outpatient department treats 200 patients daily, while the inpatient unit operates 24/7.
Dr. Jayatissa noted homeopathy’s potential as a treatment method with minimal side effects and outlined plans to fill staff vacancies, secure medicine supplies, establish laboratory services, and upgrade the hospital’s inpatient unit to a 50-bed facility. Additional plans include introducing services such as X-rays, physiotherapy, and consultations, as well as transforming the hospital into a teaching institution.
The Homeopathy Medical Council proposed initiatives such as creating a Homeopathy Medical College, producing medicines locally, expanding clinics and hospitals nationwide, and enhancing human resource development. Dr. Jayatissa encouraged sending more Sri Lankan students to India for advanced studies in homeopathy.
He also highlighted the potential of homeopathy to attract health tourism as part of broader national development goals.
The event was attended by medical professionals, including Dr. Chandani Herath, Medical Officer-in-Charge of the Welisara Homeopathy Hospital, and Dr. Ashan Nilanka Dunukara, Chairman of the Homeopathy Medical Council.
Homoeopathy is a system of medicine which introduce to the world by a allopathic doctor , Dr Christian Fedrich Samuel Hahnemann in 1796. It is based on a principal ” like cures like” (Similia similibus curantur), which means it uses the drugs that produce similar symptoms to the symptoms of disease to cure. (Newswire)
