Sri Lanka, April 3 -- Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at Lady Ridgeway Hospital for Children (LRH), Dr. Swarna Wijethunga says that the number of children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder is currently increasing daily.

She highlighted that a survey conducted in Sri Lanka in 2009 showed that one in 93 children was identified to have diagnosed with autism.

Dr. Swarna Wijethunga made these remarks while participating in a press conference held at the Health Promotion Bureau in view of with World Autism Awareness Day.

Commenting further, she said, "A survey conducted in 2009 showed that one in 93 children in Sri Lanka had this condition. After that, the survey was not conducted systematically. Now it has been restarted,...