Led one of the most successful campaigns in the world against COVID 19 with spearheading the combined national effort against COVID 19 that included preventive, suppressive, treatment and vaccination drives to safeguard every citizen of Sri Lanka.
Prepared National Strategy against COVID 19 providing guidelines to all sector/ stakeholder actions including health, military, police, disaster response, finance and other stakeholders.
Managed and coordinated all inclusive cross-government mechanisms against COVID 19 pandemic.
Ledthe national cross-government effort to safeguard the country from the COVID 19 Pandemic.
Mediated and prepared the strategies to effectively bring down Sri Lankans who were stranded in foreign countries through comprehensive repatriation programme.
Provided leadership and guidance for Tri Forces to build, develop and staff more than 200 quarantine centres for the citizens of Sri Lanka, which was decisive in breaking the spread chain of the COVID 19 Virus.
Instrumental in creating Intermediate Care Centres (ICC), which were designed to treat COVID 19 patients who did not need serious medical care, in order to reduce heavy influx of patients to hospitals for the first time.
Drew the national response effort against COVID 19 to provide humanitarian assistance to the people who suffered from the pandemic, in order to provide the vaccination to the last citizen of Sri Lanka.
Initiated the ‘Mobile Vaccine Team’ concept utilising the available resources to the optimum level, where even the people with disabilities received their vaccination at their residences.
Directed to combine the military medical staff and assets to integrate with the national health system to achieve the best result in the vaccination drive.