Press briefing of Cabinet Decision taken on 2019-10-29

Approval for the Fleming Fund Country Grant for Sri Lanka

- The proposal made by the Minister of Health,Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine to sign a Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of Sri Lanka and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to obtain a grant from the Fleming Fund, which is a grant programme to assist countries in Asia and Africa to address priorities in Antimicrobial Resistance with a view to strengthening Multisectoral Antimicrobial Resistance and Antimicrobial usage/consumption surveillance, was approved by the Cabinet.