Americares Int’l gives Rs 118 m for Mullaitivu hospital development

Americares International, a Non Governmental Organization in the US, has agreed to provide Rs 118 million to develop the Mullaitivu District General Hospital.

Americares arrived in the island during the post tsunami period to develop coastal health institutions.

It has already completed development work on the Trincomalee hospital at a cost of Rs 100 million.

They had stayed back to develop the Mullaitivu hospital at the request of Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena, a Health Ministry release said.

Under the proposed development programme, Americares has planned to build a two storeyed surgical ward, two storeyed doctors’ official quarters, a three storeyed official quarters for specialist doctors and also equip the surgical ward with an ICU and medical equipment.

The MoU was signed by Health Ministry acting Secretary Dr Palitha Mahipala and Americares Sri Lanka representative Ramani Kumari Perera at the Health Ministry recently. Americares Project Manager Ranjith Hemachandra, Dr Thushara Perera and Dr R K S Wijesuriya were also present on the occasion.