Provincial Health Ministers should use funds allocated to them for provincial hospital development projects, Health Minister Dr. Rajitha Senaratne said.
Dr. Senaratne said Rs. 1,388 million was allocated for hospital development projects in the Kalutara district in 2016.
The Sabaragamuwa Provincial Council had used funds allocated to them in 2016 for provincial hospital development effectively, the minister said at a meeting at the Kalutara District Secretariat recently.
The minister said provincial hospital development projects in the Western Province was slow and added that the projects should be accelerated.
Work on nine hospitals had been completed so far, he said.
The minister instructed Western Provincial Health Minister Sumith Lal Mendis to complete the development work of the rest of the hospitals by August this year. No state hospital will be taken over by the Central Government, he said.
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