The Wickremesinghe government has formally approved the establishment of paying wards in state-funded hospitals. It is yet another major move towards the scrapping of free public health care on which ...

Top nurses’ unions in Sri Lanka have opposed a government proposal to allow Muslim nurses to wear head coverings and long dresses as part of their uniform in state hospitals, calling it ...

A Kilkenny woman who moved to Sri Lanka last summer to work as a veterinary nurse described how it felt like she was “regressing back into her teens” after living at home with her parents in Ireland.

The global healthcare system is facing an unprecedented shortage of nursing professionals. Despite a world population exceeding 7.2 billion, there are only approximately 19 million nurses worldwide, ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) – The lives of children on the other side of the world are being changed for the better thanks to a team from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. A connection made 20 years ago has ...

We publish below a statement from the Health Workers Action Committee (Sri Lanka) issued on Wednesday morning and circulated among health workers the day before a scheduled 24-hour strike called by ...