Major General Sanjeewa Munasinghe is to be appointed as the Secretary to the Ministry of Health, according to sources.
He is the Director General of Army Medical Services and former Colonel Commandant of Army Medical Corps.
Maj. Gen. Sanjeewa is an alumnus of the Faculty of Medicine of University of Ruhuna. He completed his MBBS degree in 1986 and joined the Sri Lanka Army in the same year.
Following the completion of Basic Military training in Sri Lanka Military Academy, he was commissioned in the rank of Captain and attached to Sri Lanka Army Medical corps.
He was appointed as the Colonel Commandant of Army Medical Corps in 2010 and as the first Director General Army Health Services in 2014.
(Ada Derana)