The Cabinet has given approval to the Health Ministry to utilize finances and grants from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to enhance quality and capacity building programmes in Secondary, Treatment hospitals.
Cabinet spokesman as well as Health and Media Minister Dr Nalinda Jayathissa said that the ADB has expressed their concurrence to provide US Dollars 100 million as result based budget assistance for the quality and capacity building programme in secondary treatment hospitals throughout the island.
According to him the finances and grants would be provided to increase capacity and quality standardization, pharmaceutical drugs supply chain, transparency and efficiency within secondary treatment hospitals as well as strengthening in health procurement and financing system.
As subject Minister Dr Jayathissa said that the cabinet gave the approval to execute this project from 2025 to 2030, utilizing the said finances / grants which is provided via the result based loan grant methodology.
The number of Buddhist monks who were killed following the accident at the Na Uyana Theravada Buddhist Monastery (Na Uyana Aranya Senansenaya) in Pansiyagama, Melsiripura, Kurunegala currently stands at nine , with four injured, Minister of Buddhasasana, Religious and Cultural Affairs Prof. Hiniduma Sunil Senevi told Parliament this morning. He revealed that two of the injured Buddhist monks are being treated at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU
Several shops were damaged in a major fire that broke out in a shop on the third floor of a building at First Cross Street in Pettah, Colombo, today evening.
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, addressing the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly, said that both inequality and poverty ought to be regarded as a worldwide catastrophe that requires urgent attention.
The opposition has renewed its demand for a long delayed forensic audit into the controversial e-visa deal, following the sentencing of former Controller General of Immigration, Harsha Ilukpitiya, for contempt of court.
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