The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka has decided to conduct an investigations into a petition filed over the violation of fundamental rights of the public owing to the shortage of medicine in the country and the increase in medicine prices.
The HRCSL said notice has been issued to the Ministry of Health in relation to investigations.
The petition was filed by the Medical and Civil Rights Physicians’ Trade Union Alliance.
The Secretary of the Ministry of Health, the Director General Health Services and the National Medicines Regulatory Authority have been cited as respondents in the petition.
