Navy prepares Neville Fernando hospital to examine suspected COVID-19 patients

Sri Lanka Navy today commenced putting up a location for examining blood and saliva of persons suspected to have contracted COVID-19 (Coronavirus) at the Neville Fernando Hospital in Malabe.

Navy personnel also started installing a CCTV system at the ward of pregnant mothers suspected to have contracted the disease. 

Considering the prevailing situation caused by the Coronavirus in the country, required facilities to examine the blood and saliva of suspected persons to coronavirus affection, is under construction at Neville Fernando hospital too. Accordingly, converting a place in the hospital to provide such facilities and installation of CCTV system to the ward for the suspected pregnant mothers to Coronavirus affection, enabling them to communicate with doctors, was commenced by Navy today. This project is operated by civil engineering and electrical engineering naval personnel attached to the Western Naval Command.

Naval personnel engaged in this project have thrown their full weigh for ongoing tasks to provide said facilities to the hospital as soon as possible and Navy is extending the maximum cooperation to the government’s coordinated mechanism to control the Coronavirus in the country, the Navy stressed in a media release. 

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