Ranjith Batuwanthudawe

Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka · Family Health Bureau

Personality Traits, Self-esteem and Leadership Styles: Trending qualities of individuals in leadership roles in Colombo

Background: Accidental burns are a common cause of morbidity and mortality among children under 5 years. The principal caretaker's knowledge and practices are directly associated with the child's safety. Objective: To describe the knowledge and practices on childhood unintentional burns prevention among principal caretakers of under 5 year childr...

To estimate the incidence of invasive pneumococcal disease and pneumonia, distribution of pneumococcal serotypes, and antibiotic susceptibility in children aged 28 days to <60 months. Hospital-based surveillance. South Bangalore, India. 9950 children aged 28 days to <60 months with clinical suspicion of invasive pneumococcal disease or pneumonia. T...

Rotavirus diarrhea is an important cause of child mortality in developing countries, but studies on this diarrhea are scarce in Sri Lanka. A prospective study conducted in Sri Lanka on rotavirus infection among children in a hospital setting (n=611) versus children residing in tsunami camps (n=52) showed that prevalence of rotavirus infection was c...

Rotavirus is the most common cause of severe gastroenteritis among children. We conducted hospital-based surveillance to estimate the burden of hospitalizations for rotavirus among children aged <5 years and to describe strain distribution patterns during the 2-year study period. Children aged <5 years with diarrhea were prospectively enrolled and...

To demonstrate the burden of Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) disease in Sri Lanka and provide information for decision-making in public health planning and vaccine introduction. This was a prospective, population-based study carried out in 2004, to describe the epidemiology and calculate the incidence of meningitis caused by Hib in children <5...

BACKGROUND : The South Asian Pneumococcal Alliance (SAPNA) has collected data on childhood IPD in Nepal, Sri Lanka and India with the support from GAVI's Pneumo ADIP . OBJECTIVES : To generate epidemiological data on IPD and assist the development of national policies regarding control of IPD METHODS : Children from 2 months to 5 years with clinica...

Introduction: Sri Lanka needs to generate comprehensive local epidemiological data on Invasive Pneumococcal Disease (IPD) in view of introducing pneumococcaf vaccine to mitigate the impact of morbidity, mortality of IPD and emerging antibacterial resistance of Streptococcus pneumoniae. Objective: To describe epidemiology of IPD and serotype distrib...

The objective of this prospective study was to investigate the status of acute respiratory tract infections caused by Haemophilus influenzae and Streptococcus pneumoniae in tsunami disaster evacuation camps. Nasopharyngeal swabs (NP) of 324 internally displaced persons (IDP) in 3 different tsunami disaster evacuation camps of Sri Lanka were collect...