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CANADIAN RED CROSS TO SPEND 400 MILLION TO GIVE POLONNARUWA A THREE STOREY MODERN HOSPITALBy Walter JayawardhanaThe Canadian Red Cross Society will spend 400 million Rupees to upgrade
Polonnaruwa General Hospital to a three story hospital with the most
modern facilities, A Red Cross website has announced. The Relief web of the Red Cross said, “The Canadian Red Cross
(CRC) Society will spend 366 million rupees for the construction of
new building and Rs. 50 million to provide the required medical equipment.
There will be an outpatient department, X-ray room, clinics dispensaries,
an auditorium and administration area in this new building.” The Red Cross further said, that the new three story building complex
will be constructed at Polonnaura general hospital that will bring improvements
to the level of healthcare provided to the people of Polonnaruwa district
and neighboring areas. The relief web also said that Polonnaruwa is
one of the districts in the North Central Province of Sri Lanka where
the majority of the population depends on agriculture and this General
Hospital is the main health facility available for the people in the
district who come from far distant rural areas. This building constrution project was initiated by the Sri Lanka Red
Cross Society under the post Tsunami recovery program. International
Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) will provide
technical assistance for the project. The ceremony of the laying of the foundation stone for the new complex
on 14th of August, 2008 was attended by Minister of Healthcare and Nutrition
Nimal Siripala De Silva, Minister of Agriculture Development and Agrarian
Services Maitreepala Sirisena, Minister of Agrarian Services Siripala
Gamlath Deputy Minister of Land and Land Development Chandrasiri Sooriyarachchi,
President of the Sri Lanka Red Cross Society Jagath Abeysinghe, National
Secretary S.H. Nimal Kumar, Head of Delegation IFRC Paul Emese, construction
delegate of Canadian Red Cross Niloo Szand and Chairman of the Pollonnaruwa
SLRCS branch H P Wijayasena. During the occation the Liquid Oxygen storage system constructed with
CRC funding was also handed over to hospital authorities. The Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, the web said, has made a long
term commitment towards rebuilding Sri Lanka's health sector. The Red
Cross and Red Crescent's post tsunami health infrastructure development
programme which is constructing and renovating a total of 77 health
facilities across 16 districts of Sri Lanka under a MoU agreed with
the Ministry of Health, it further reported. The 77 projects include
the construction, renovation or refurbishment of wide range of health
care facilities including district and base level hospitals as well
as clinics and dispensaries. Construction of nurse training centres
and providing 6 oxygen storage facilities at different hospitals also
include the programme. The Red Cross will be equipping most of these
facilities with medical equipment which ranges from hospital beds to
sophisticated X-ray and ultrasound machines. This programme will run until 2010 and majority of projects are expected
to be completed by 2009, the website promised. |
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