Northern Central Hospital opens in Jaffna

Sanjeevi Jayasuriya

Boosting the healthcare facilities in the Northern Province, the Northern Central Hospital the 80 bedded multi specialty healthcare facility was opened in Jaffna on Sunday.

The hospital is a BOI project with substantial investment will further supplement the North Province healthcare service. It comprises four floors where two floors are functioning at present, Provincial Director of Health Services Northern Province Dr. S.R. Jude told Daily News Business. The entire hospital will be ready by mid April with modern facilities including 10 bedded ICU, 13 channeling rooms, two each of operating and labour rooms to provide curative treatment, she said.

The hospital has a well equipped laboratory, x-ray, ECG facility and ultra sound scanner to offer high service delivery. The standard of the Northern Central Hospital will be on par with thehospitals in the Western Province and it will fill a void in the healthcare service requirement of the North, Jude said.