President opens state of the art German-Sri Lanka Friendship Women’s Hospital in Karapitiya Galle
President Ranil Wickremesinghe said that it was imperative that the education and health sectors are modernized to ensure the country’s future prosperity and development.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe made this remark while attending the opening of the “German-Sri Lanka Friendship New Women’s Hospital” in Karapitiya Galle, hailed as the largest maternity hospital in South Asia, on Monday (27).
The six-story hospital has 640 beds, 6 operating theaters, emergency treatment units, intensive care units, laboratories, infant intensive care units, special pediatric units, and state-of-the-art medical facilities. Additionally, it features water purification and recycling unit.
The German government has contributed Euro 25 million (LKR 3570 million) for this project, in addition to providing medical equipment.
Initially, eight hundred perches were allocated for the hospital’s construction, but later, two additional plots of land were acquired, increasing the total area of the hospital to nearly one thousand perches.
Former Chancellor of Germany, Helmut Kohl, made this significant donation towards the construction of a new maternity hospital in Sri Lanka. This gesture came after witnessing the devastation caused by the tsunami to the Mahmodara Hospital Galle, the largest maternity hospital in the southern province, during his vacation in December 2004 at a tourist hotel in Talpe, Habaraduwa.
Following the inauguration of the new hospital, plans are underway to relocate the Mahmodara Maternity Hospital from its current location
(PMD)
