Regional educational events were held under the theme “Clinical Pearls of Paediatric Emergencies”. A total of 05 programmes were held during the last year.
The first programme was held at Teaching Hospital Anuradhapura, in collaboration with the Anuradhapura clinical society on the 3rd of July 2019. Resource persons involved: Dr. Nalin Kitulwatte, Dr. M.A.M. Fizal, Dr. Deshan Adhihetty and Dr. Udaya de Silva.
The second programme was held at Lady Ridgeway hospital for Children – Colombo on 02nd of August 2019. Resource persons involved: Dr. Nalin Kitulwatte, Dr. Manjula Hewageegana, Dr. Deshan Adhihetty and Dr. Saman Kumara.
The third programme was held at Lanka Hospitals- Colombo on 4th October 2019. Resource persons involved were Dr. Nalin Kitulwatte, Dr. Manjula Hewageegana, Dr. Deshan Adhihetty, Dr. Navoda Atapattu and Dr. Sanjaya Abeygunasekara.
The fourth programme was on management of Dengue haemorrhagic fever. It was held at Lady Ridgeway Hospital for Children – Colombo on 5th of December 2019. It was organisedin collaboration with the Dengue Control programme, National Epidemiology Unit – Ministry of health Sri Lanka. Resource persons involved were Dr. Nalin Kitulwatte, Dr. Deshan Adhihetty, Dr. Jayantha Weeraman and Dr. Hasitha Thissera. The fifth programme on Paediatric emergencies was done for nursing officers in collaboration with the Paediatric Nurses Association. It was held at Lady Ridgeway hospital for Children – Colombo on the 7th of March 2020.Resource persons involved were Dr. Nalin Kitulwatte, Dr. Manjula Hewageegana, Dr. Deshan Adhihetty, Dr. Saman Kumara and Dr. Navoda Atapattu.