{"id":199,"date":"2026-04-23T07:19:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T07:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/?p=199"},"modified":"2026-04-23T07:19:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T07:19:50","slug":"life-expectancy-in-sri-lanka-increases-with-vaccination-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/2026\/04\/23\/life-expectancy-in-sri-lanka-increases-with-vaccination-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Expectancy in Sri Lanka Increases with Vaccination Programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s life expectancy has improved over the past 15 years, largely due to the success of the national immunization programme, the Health Ministry stated.<\/p>\n<p>According to Dr. Palitha Karunapema, Chief Epidemiologist at the Epidemiology Unit, many infectious diseases have been effectively controlled through the routine vaccination of children under the national programme.<\/p>\n<p>He made these remarks at a media briefing held at the Health Promotion Bureau ahead of World Immunization Week, which begins tomorrow (24).<\/p>\n<p>Health authorities emphasized that continued vaccination efforts remain essential to sustaining public health improvements and further increasing life expectancy in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s life expectancy has improved over the past 15 years, largely due to the success of the national immunization programme, the Health Ministry stated. According to Dr. Palitha Karunapema, Chief Epidemiologist at the Epidemiology Unit, many infectious diseases have been effectively controlled through the routine vaccination of children under the national programme. He made &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}