Government to provide immune boosting porridge to fight Covid

31 Aug, 2021

The Government is to provide immune boosting porridge to families in Sri Lanka to fight Covid.

The?Cabinet of Ministers has approved a proposal tabled in this regard by Health Minister Keheliya Rambukwella.

Accordingly, indigenous immune strengthening medicine and immune strengthening porridge will be provided to all families in the country.

The Government said that the intention is to control the COVID-19 pandemic in the country.

The Minister of Health has proposed to provide a medicine box approved by the Formula Committee of the Department of Ayurveda to each family.

The medicine box will be provided to 2.5 million families who lost their income during the quarantine curfew in the first phase of the proposed program and the remaining families in the second phase. (Colombo Gazette)

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