Ayurvedic doctors to receive additional allowance

The State Minister for Indigenous Medicine Sisira Jayakody announced

that the Cabinet has approved extending the additional service allowance,

previously granted only to western medicine doctors, to include Ayurvedic

practitioners.

The State Minister Jayakody, who noted that Ayurvedic doctors had been

requesting this change for over 18 years, expressed gratitude to President

Ranil Wickremesinghe for his intervention in realizing this long-standing

request. The minister made these remarks while addressing the press

briefing titled “Collective Path to a Stable Country” held at the

Presidential Media Centre yesterday.