The “Silver Jubilee”, Annual Academic Sessions of the College of Community Physicians of Sri Lanka (CCPSL), was held at Hotel Shangri-La recently.
The CCPSL explored different dimensions of Sri Lankan food from farm to plate at the sessions. The theme “Safe and Nutritious food: Everyone’s business” highlighted the need for actions to enable people to remain free of Non-Communicable Diseases and live a healthy life.
Prof Vajira Dissanayake, Dean of Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, delivered the oration of the college of CCPSL on “Looking into the future – should we rethink the way we approach health and wellbeing of our people in the post Covid-19 era”.
The guest of honour, Foreign Affairs Ministry Secretary, Admiral Prof Jayanath Colombage, spoke on the success of government efforts in combating Covid-19.
This years’ annual scientific sessions were enriched with pre-congress sessions, symposia, plenaries and sessions of original research paper presentations under a wide spectrum of thematic areas.
The speakers focused on the innovations and applications of biotechnology in food production and risk-based decision making to manage food safety.
A session was held on Sri Lanka’s experience in combating Covid-19 “whole government approach” and missing link “whole society approach” with the participation of different sectors.
A panel of experts discussed the “Economic impact of Covid-19: global, regional and country perspective and its impact on SDGs”.
The program also covered maternal and child health, improving mental wellbeing, sexual and reproductive health, elderly health and wellbeing and innovations in infection control. The apex professional body of public health specialists said that the outcome of their scientific sessions would foster the health system and research in Sri Lanka into new heights.