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Turkey donates emergency medicine and medical supplies to Lanka
The Government of Turkey donated USD one million worth of emergency medicines and other medical supplies which are urgently required by the hospitals in Sri Lanka. The first consignment, which includes Filgasstrin injections, were airlifted to Sri Lanka and were received by the officials of the Ministry of Health of Sri Lanka recently (14).
The Lankan Embassy in Ankara said: Ambassador of Sri Lanka to Turkey, M.Rizvi Hassen, during his meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey, Mevlut Cavusoglu, and the Chairman of Turkey-Sri Lanka Parliamentarian Friendship Group, Ahmet Hamdi Camli, on August 17, thanked and expressed gratitude to the President of the Republic of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and the Government of Turkey, for the generous donation and the solidarity extended to the Government and people of Sri Lanka.
The two containers of other medicines and medical supplies left the Izmit Sea Port, Turkey, on 17 August, 2022 and are expected to reach the Colombo Port by mid-Sept 2022.
The donation was a result of a request made by Ambassador Hassen during his meeting with the Chairman of Turkey-Sri Lanka Parliamentarian Friendship Group, Ahmet Hamdi Camli, and senior officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey, in the month of May 2022, to brief about the situation in Sri Lanka with a request to consider assisting the health sector of Sri Lanka. Subsequently, the Ministry of Health of Turkey coordinated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey and expedited the dispatch of the medical consignment with the approval of the President of the Republic of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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