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.
Meteorology Department forecasted that showers will occur at times in Northern, North-central, Eastern and Northwestern provinces and in Matale and Nuwara-Eliya districts.
Former President’s Secretary Saman Ekanayake was today remanded until February 11 by the Fort Magistrate in relation to the case where former President Ranil Wickremesinghe is alleged to have misused Rs. 16.6 million in state funds during a visit to the UK to attend his wife’s graduation ceremony at the University of Wolverhampton.
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