Minister instructs to accelerate construction

Nimal Wijesinghe Anuradhapura Additional district group correspondent

Health Care Minister Maithripala Sirisena on a recent visit to Anuradhapura instructed the relevant authorities to accelerate the construction work of all building structures within the Anuradhapura teaching hospital premises.

The Minister directed the Provincial Health Services Director to submit a report outlining the immediate requirements of drugs and the number of vacancies in the hospital and other medical institutions in the province.

The Minister accompanied by Minister Tissa Karalliyadda Chief Minister Berty Premalal Dissanayake NCP Governor Karunaratne Divulgane and Provincial Health Minister Peshala Bandara Jayaratne inspected the construction worksites of the Medical Faculty Professors unit of the Rajarata University which costs the Government Rs. 120 million the new hospital complex worth Rs 2,300 millions was a grant by the Japanese government.

He also inaugurated the city emergency ambulance service unit.

The Minister indicated that the Polonnaruwa Base hospital being administered by the North Central Provincial Council would be taken over by the Central Government to affect large scale improvements there.