Ninthavur hospital completed

With the opening of reconstructed and renovated two hospital buildings damaged by the tsunami and newly constructed State of the art three-storied building at Ninthavur Divisional Hospital, Ampara people in Ninthavur and its surrounding area now have access to improved health care services.

The Finnish Red Cross (FRC), in cooperation with the Sri Lanka Red Cross Society (SLRCS), International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and the Health Ministry financially supported for the hospital development project that cost over 214 million rupees.

The Ninthavur Divisional Hospital now boasts an up to date out-patients department with an emergency treatment unit, a laboratory, a minor operation theatre, a maternity ward, medical, surgical and paediatric wards, a channelling centre, a medical, surgical and general store as well as an administrative unit.

The Red Cross will also supply adequate medical equipment and furniture for the hospital, a safe and acceptable waste water treatment system and a solid waste management system.

The guests at the opening ceremony were National Secretary of the Sri Lanka Red Cross Society S.H. Nihal Kumar, Chairman of Ampara SLRCS branch Sunil Disanayake, Director of International Operations, FRC Kalle Loovi, Movement Coordinator for the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Mieke Van Pouckc and Philip Hayes, Field Representative for Batticaloa and Ampara from the ICRC.