Yesterday (23rd Jan) also we performed heart operations and we used the stents given free by the Health Ministry. We perform about 10 operations daily at the National Hospital. Dr.Ranasinghe said that the decision taken by Minister of Health, indigenous medicine Rajitha Senaratna to give the stents free of charge to patients is commendable. 

 

He said upto now the patients undergoing angio plastic surgery had to purchase the stents from private companies. It has been changed with immediate effect with the decision of the minister to give the stents free of charge.