Sri Lanka, March 28 -- It was revealed in the Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) that a private company named 'Savorite' was issued Waiver of Registration (WoR) certificates to import 38 types of medicines in 2022 without the evaluation of the National Medicines Regulatory Authority (NMRA).

The former Secretary to the Ministry of Health also informed the Committee that the former Minister of Health had given instructions to select this private company called 'Savorite' to import medicines in this way.

This was disclosed when the Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) of Parliament met in Parliament on Wednesday (March 26), under the chairmanship of Member of Parliament (Dr.) Nishantha Samaraweera, to examine the Auditor General's re...