Rs. 28 million to develop Health sector in 2018: Health Minister

 

Several development projects worth Rs. 28,000 million will be implemented next year in the health sector, Health Minister Rajitha Senaratne has said.

Minister Senaratne had stated that the cabinet approval has already been received for the cabinet memorandum which includes the 2018 development projects.

He said that all development proposals are due to be presented in the 2018 budget.

The Minister has said this after inaugerating several development projects at Baduraliya, Kalutara.

Minister Senaratne had stated that peripheral hospitals will be developed in order to ease the congestion of main state hospitals.

Steps will be taken to ensure that all physical and human resources to be distributed equally in a balanced manner. 

Specialized units such as Pediatric Units, Cancer Units, Maternal Units etc will be added to the peripheral hospitals.

Currently the government has undertaken to provide 100 percent of disease prevention work, 90 - 95 percent of in-house treatments and 45 percent of Out Patient Department (OPD) treatments. 

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