{"id":8742,"date":"2020-05-12T01:33:34","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T01:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=8742"},"modified":"2020-05-12T01:33:34","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T01:33:34","slug":"maj-gen-munasinghe-appointed-secretary-to-health-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/maj-gen-munasinghe-appointed-secretary-to-health-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"Maj. Gen. Munasinghe appointed Secretary to Health Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Director General of Army Health Services, Major General (Dr.) Sanjeewa Munasinghe, has been appointed as the Secretary to the Ministry of Health.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He officially assumed duties at the Health Ministry premises yesterday (May 11).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi, Director General of Health Services Dr. Anil Jasinghe, former Secretary of the Health Ministry Badrani Jayawardena and several other officials were also present.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Former Colonel Commandant of Army Medical Corps, Maj. Gen. Munasinghe is an alumnus of the Faculty of Medicine of University of Ruhuna.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He completed his MBBS degree in 1986 and joined the Sri Lanka Army in the same year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Following the completion of Basic Military training in Sri Lanka Military Academy, he was commissioned in the rank of Captain and attached to Sri Lanka Army Medical corps.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He was appointed as the Colonel Commandant of Army Medical Corps in 2010 and as the first Director General of Army Health Services in 2014.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Maj. Gen. Munasinghe, who is a consultant radiologist at Military Hospital, also served as President of Sri Lanka College of Military Medicine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Adaderana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director General of Army Health Services, Major General (Dr.) Sanjeewa Munasinghe, has been appointed&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}