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Press briefing of Cabinet Decision taken on 2017-08-29
Obtaining 100 Ambulances for the Government Hospitals under the Austrian soft loan scheme
- In establishing a qualitative health care service, it is important to provide a safe and efficient mode of transport of patients to the nearest hospital with the required health facilities. Accordingly, the proposal made by Hon. Ranil Wickremasinghe, the Prime Minister in his capacity as the Minister of National Policies and Economic Affairs, to launch a project to provide 100 ambulances with essential life saving equipment, to the selected Government hospitals and to enter into a Loan Agreement with the Raiffeisen Bank of Austria to obtain a soft loan amounting to Euro 9.8 million for the project, was approved by the Cabinet.