A new district general hospital was declared open in Nuwara Eliya by President Maithripala Sirisena today (Jul 15).
The hospital was constructed through a Rs 7 billion grant from the Dutch government, the President's Media Division noted.
Among the facilities at the hospital are a ward with 600 beds, an Intensive Care Unit, an Accident Ward, and housing quarters for nurses.
A pharmacy and a dialysis unit too have been constructed within the hospital.
A Sri Lankan man was apprehended at Suvarnabhumi airport for attempting to smuggle wildlife out of the country after three ball pythons were found hidden in his underwear, the Bangkok post reported.
Read these and more on tomorrow’s edition of the Sunday Times
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