Longest-running medical TV show

The longest-running medical advice programme on television is ‘Vaidaya Hamuwa’ hosted by Dr. Jayalath Jayawardena (Sri Lanka) and has been regularly broadcast for 14 years 7 months as of April 2011.

Dr. Jayalath Jayawardena is also an eminent politician in Sri Lanka, being a former member of parliament and now a senior member of the current opposition United National Party in the country.