Press briefing of Cabinet Decision taken on 2017-07-04

Construction of a new Nurses' Hostel at the Sri Jayawardenapura General Hospital

- A nursing staff of 750 is engaged at the Sri Jayawrdenapura General Hospital for patients care services and hostel facilities are provided only for 200 nurses out of them. As such, National Competitive Bids have been invited for the construction of a new nurses hostel to provide a further number of about 300 officers with hostel facilities. Accordingly, the proposal made by Hon. (Dr.) Rajitha Senaratne, the Minister of Health, Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine, to award the relevant contract to M/s Sripalie Contractors (Pvt.) Ltd., the lowest evaluated substantially responsive bidder in accordance with the recommendations of the Technical Evaluation Committee which evaluated the bids and the Standing Cabinet Appointed Procurement Committee, was approved by the Cabinet.