Japan
has
provided
2
billion
rupees
to
improve
the
central
function
of the
Jaffna
Teaching
Hospital
by
extending
assistance
to
improve
the
health
sector
in the
North.
The
funds
were
provided
after
Health
Minister,
Nimal
Siripala
de Silva
requested
Japanese
aid to
re-develop
the
hospital
which is
one of
the main
hospitals
providing
health
care for
the
Northern
people.
The
project
will be
completed
before
the end
of 2010.
Under
this,
the
hospital
will get
a new
three-storey
administrative
building
in
addition
to
upgrading
the
already
available
facilities
in it.
The
new
administrative
block of
the
hospital
will
house
the
central
laboratory,
pathology,
haematology,
bio
chemistry,
micro
biology
units,
patient
diagnosis
section,
four
radiology
units, a
dental
clinic,
an
X-Ray,
mammography,
endoscopy
and CT
scanning
Units,
an ECG
and an
EEG unit
and an
ICU with
bed
strength
of
twenty.
The
development
of the
hospital
will
immensely
benefit
patients
in the
North.
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