Press briefing of Cabinet Decision taken on 2011-02-15

Equipment requirement for the Clinical Building - Wards Complex, Faculty of Medicine & Allied Science - Saliyapura Rajarata University of Sri Lanka

- this Faculty was inaugurated in 2006 and the first batch of students of this new Medical Faculty will commence the final year in March this year. This Medical Faculty has to conform to the strict criteria laid down by the Sri Lanka Medical Council (SLMC). In keeping with this requirement, a ward complex consisting of wards, operating theatres, intensive care units, labour rooms and many other specialist areas are being constructed near the Teaching Hospital, Anuradhapura. On a joint proposal made by the Hon. Maithripala Sirisena, Minister of Health; and Hon. S.B. Dissanayake, Minister of Higher Education, Cabinet approval was granted for the procurement of the necessary equipment for the above units of the Faculty of Medicine of the Rajarata University of Sri Lanka at a cost of Rs.250 million.