Hon. Governor of the Eastern Province, Mrs. Anuradha Yahampath recently visited the Kattankudy Base Hospital. During the visit, she looked into the shortcomings prevailing in the hospital. Hospital authorities pointed out that due to unavailability of necessary specialists, there is no possibility of using the hospital's fully equipped intensive care unit. The Governor highly emphasized that necessary measures to be taken to provide the required doctors and other staff with immediate effect to function the unit.

Eastern Provincial Council commemorated the 72^nd Independence Day of the Country on 04^th of February 2020 at the EPC premises, Varothayanagar, Trincomalee under the chairmanship of the Chief Secretary, Mr.Thusitha. P. Wanigasingha

This great ceremonial event was commenced at 9.00 a.m. with the hoisting of the National Flag by Chief Secretary and the Provincial Flag by the Secretary- Ministry of Agriculture, Mr. K. Sivanathan, followed by the tree planting programme inside the EPC premises.

St. Joseph’s College – Eravur, Inter - House Sports Meet was held on 2020-01-30 at the College ground with the participation of Right Rev. Dr. Ponniah Joseph, The Bishop of Batticaloa - Ampara and Hon. Anuradha Yahampath, The Governor of Eastern Province. The Governor presented the gifts and the certificates to the winners of the college athletes at this occasion.

Today the Eastern Province Tourism Bureau, along with the Honorable Governor of the Eastern Province, Anuradha Yahampath, launched their 2020 digital marketing tourism campaign “Visit East Sri Lanka”, designed to support and promote tourism industries across the entire Province to international audiences.

The new website www.visiteastsrilanka.lk and short videos posted on the Bureau’s Instagram @visiteast_srilanka and Facebook @visiteastsrilanka highlight the existing signature experiences across the Eastern Province, aiming to draw a larger number of visitors to the East.