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A cancerous disease | Daily FT

25 Sep 2026, 07:33 GMT
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Article A cancerous disease | Daily FT

Sri Lanka’s Constitution contains one of the clearest promises the State can make to a citizen. Article 12(1) says that all persons are equal before the law and entitled to the equal protection of the law. That promise does not disappear when a person becomes sick. A cancer diagnosis does not reduce a citizen’s constitutional status, and the State’s responsibility does not begin and end with ..