Health Minister Rajitha Senaratne has informed contractors to complete constructing the new Cancer Hospital in Kandy before the end of next year.
The hospital will be constructed in the Kandy General Hospital premises, Health Ministry sources said.
According to the sources, the new Cancer hospital has 12 floors and 380 beds and a dialysis unit will also be set up in the new hospital.
The main objective of building this hospital is to combat against the rapidly increasing Non Communicable Diseases more effectively.
A total of Rs. 8500 million was spent in this year (2017) to develop the Kandy General Hospital.
Minister Senaratne laid the foundation stone for the proposed six storey Nurses Training School to be built at a cost of Rs. 1000 million in Kandy.
Minister inaugurated the new Nurses Quarters, the new Organ Transplant Clinic Centre and laid the foundation stone for the proposed Accident Service unit in the Kandy General Hospital.
Minister Senaratne said that the Japanese Government agreed to provide special financial aid to develop the Sri Lankan state hospital network, the sources added.