Date : 2006-03-28
Kuwait Hospital in Puttalam Inaugurated
Colombo, 28 March, (Asiantribune.com): A 50-bed Kuwait hospital in
Puttalam was declared open on Sunday at a simple ceremony. This is said
to be the first phase of the project launched by the Social Service
Department of Sri Lanka Jama'ath e Islami and the project was sponsored
by Zakat House, Kuwait .
'This Hospital is equipped with almost all the basic facilities of a
modern hospital' said Dr. Khaleelur Rahman, Medical Director of the
Hospital.
'It has Emergency Treatment Unit, Operation Theatre, X-Ray Unit, Ultra
Sound Unit, Maternity Care Unit with labour Room, Dental Care Unit, ,
Male General ward, Female General Ward, Patient Rooms, Medical
Laboratory, Pharmacy, Nurses quarters, Doctors Quarters etc.It also has
24-hour OPD and Ambulance Services' he elaborated.
Chairman of the Kuwait Hospital Foundation, Faisz Musthafa, a former
Chairman of Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka and also former Sri
Lankan High Commissioner in London, in his address at the ceremony shed
light on the main features of this Project and thanked all those who
were instrumental in completing this Project in a short period of around
18 months.
He also said that it was a great learning experience for him to work
with Jama'ath e Islami. He said he was very much impressed by the
dedication, teamwork, selflessness and commitment of the Jamaat team he
worked with.
Later Musthafa and former provincial health minister Al Haj Navavi
jointly inaugurated the Kuwait Hospital Road Development Project under
the Maga Neguma Project of the Government.
'A grand Ceremonial Opening will be held in the later part of April when
the hospital will be ready to function in full scale' said M.R.M.Salman,
Attorney at Law, the Secretary of the Kuwait Hospital Foundation. 'A
cabinet minister of the Government of Kuwait is expected to be the Chief
Guest at this Ceremony,' he said.
- Asian Tribune -
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