The Sri Lankan government has announced that a brand new hospital will be built for the Sri Lankan Armed Forces, at a cost of 4.1 billion rupees.
Government Minister Keheliya Rambukwelle said that,
"I think this is the right priority since soldiers have made sacrifices to save the unity of the country".
The new hospital is set to be built from scratch and will be 10 storeys tall with outpatient facilities, an investigations unit with a CT scanner, as well as dental surgery and medical lab facilities.
Meanwhile, see what the Sri Lankan priorities for the Tamil people are in our earlier post: Keppapulavu IDPs 'resettled' into forests (27 September 2012)
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