{"id":86311,"date":"2025-08-23T02:22:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T06:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=86311"},"modified":"2025-08-23T07:30:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T11:30:18","slug":"former-president-ranil-wickremesinghe-transferred-to-national-hospital-from-prison-hospital-due-to-unstable-health-condition-intensive-specialist-care-provided-after-steeo-rise-in-blood-pressure-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=86311","title":{"rendered":"Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe Transferred to National Hospital from Prison Hospital due to Unstable Health Condition. Intensive Specialist care provided after steeo rise in Blood Pressure and Blood sugar levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The medical condition of former President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who was admitted to the prison hospital on the night of 22 August 2025  following a remand order, is reported to he  unstable.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A prison official said Wickremesinghe was first brought to the Magazine Prison, where doctors who examined him recommended a transfer to the Welikada Prison Hospital after his blood pressure and sugar levels were found to be elevated.<br \/>\nHowever, it was reported that his blood pressure further increased by this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The Former President was  transferred to the National Hospital in Colombo due to health concerns.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to sources, the move followed medical assessments that recommended specialist care not available at the prison hospital.<br \/>\nWickremesinghe, who was remanded on 22 August  was first admitted to the prison hospital with multiple health complications.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, several politicians, including former President Mahinda Rajapaksa and Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa, visited the Welikada Prison Hospital on 23  morning  to meet the former President.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Daily  Mirror<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton86311\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D86311&amp;text=Former%20President%20Ranil%20Wickremesinghe%20Transferred%20to%20National%20Hospital%20from%20Prison%20Hospital%20due%20to%20Unstable...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The medical condition of former President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who was admitted to the prison hospital on the night of 22 August 2025 following a remand order, is reported to he unstable. A prison official said Wickremesinghe was first brought to the Magazine Prison, where doctors who examined him recommended a transfer to the Welikada Prison &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=86311\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe Transferred to National Hospital from Prison Hospital due to Unstable Health Condition. Intensive Specialist care provided after steeo rise in Blood Pressure and Blood sugar levels&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86312,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86311\/revisions\/86312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}