Sri Lanka, April 19 -- Colombo, April 18 () - Sri Lanka is facing an imminent threat in its health sector with high chances of substandard medicines like human immunoglobulin entering the market in the near future, as the law enforcement body of the National Medicines Regulatory Authority (NMRA) has diminished to just a single officer since this week.

In a shocking revelation the learns that the NMRA Law Enforcement Division, which is supposed to run with a stipulated staff of at least 20 Food and Drug Inspectors attached to its head office, has been functioning with only two experienced officials for many months.

This figure has diminished to one since Monday, when the Chief Food and Drug Inspector of NMRA Law Enforcement Division also...