Former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has called on the Government not to promote medicines claiming to cure COVID-19 unless approved worldwide.
He further said Ministers and Parliamentarians promoting locally manufactured medicines claiming to cure the coronavirus is irresponsible.
Ranil Wickremesinghe said that medicines not sanctioned by the National Medicines Regulatory Authority of Sri Lanka should not be promoted without proper research or approval.
The former Prime Minister’s comments come after thousands of people gathered in Kegalle last week to obtain a sample of an Ayurvedic medicine tasted by several MPs and Ministers recently. (NewsWire)