President opens Global Congress for Consensus in Paediatrics and Child Health

President Maithripala Sirisena opened the 6th Global Congress for Consensus in Paediatrics and Child Health (CIP) at the Hilton Hotel in Colombo this week.

The Congress, hosted by Sri Lanka College of Paediatricians and attended by more than 250 paediatricians from 42 countries, will be held until 15 November.

CIP brings an innovative and stimulating global academic debate platform searching for consensus and agreements on main child health pathologies, management options of paediatric health problems, difficulties faced and controversies.

CIP congress will allow networking between local, regional and other international participants, who would travel from all over the globe.

Minister of Health Dr. Rajitha Senaratne, the President of the Global Initiative for Consensus in Paediatrics, Manuel Katz, President of the Sri Lanka College of Paediatricians, Dr. Lakkumar Fernando, Secretary-General of the Asia Pacific Paediatric Association, Dr. Ismail Zulkifli and many others participated on this occasion.