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Emerg Med Australas · Feb 2008
Emergency medicine in Sri Lanka: the inevitable evolution to a new specialty.
- Gim Tan, Chula Goonasekera, and Shane Curran.
- Faculty of Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. tan@alfred.org.au
- Emerg Med Australas. 2008 Feb 1;20(1):81-4.
AbstractSri Lanka is a low-income country with a relatively advanced, equitable and accessible health-care system offered to its 20 million populations free of charge through a national pro-poor health policy. Its weaknesses in emergency services, however, surfaced in 2004 when it faced the Tsunami, the worst natural disaster of the world of the 21st century. Since then, the local health community with the assistance of the government and foreign aid agencies have embarked on a path to establish emergency services, improve its preparedness for disaster management and establishment of emergency medicine training. The present article traces this path and how it is evolving in the country.
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