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CHINA-SRILANKA-HOSPITAL-AID
Chinese company starts hospital facility upgrading aid project in Sri
Lanka
BEIJING, June 22, 2018 (BSS/Xinhua) – The Sri Lankan hospital facility
upgrading aid project undertaken by a Chinese company began on June 15 in
Aluthgama, a city in southern Sri Lanka.
It’s learned that the assistance construction project includes
construction of outpatient clinics, inpatient departments, laboratories,
operating rooms and emergency rooms of 13 hospitals in a duration of three
years.
Tian Yaobin, deputy general manager of CETC International Co., Ltd., the
project contractor, said that the project will be constructed according to
local actual needs and will introduce advanced medical equipment to upgrade
the level of local hospital infrastructure to serve local people.
Minister of Health, Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine Rajitha Senaratne
said that since the establishment of diplomatic ties between China and Sri
Lanka in the 1950s, China has helped Sri Lanka develop in many fields, and
has also helped Sri Lanka build infrastructure facilities such as ports,
highways and airports. In the future, the government of Sri Lanka will
continue to maintain close cooperation with China under the Belt and Road
Initiative.
BSS/XINHUA/HR/1455