Foundation for D. A. Rajapaksa Ayurveda Teaching Hospital

HAMBANTOTA: Ministers Tissa Karalliyadda and Chamal Rajapaksa will lay the foundation stones for the proposed D. A. Rajapaksa Memorial Ayurveda Teaching Hospital at the Hambantota new town at 10 a.m. today.

The project costing Rs. 117 million to be implemented under the ADB funded Southern Province Rural Economic Development Project's Tsunami Rehabilitation funds will be the largest Ayurveda Hospital in the Southern Province, the Indigenous Medicine Ministry said yesterday.

The entire hospital complex is due to be completed in two years. The first stage including OPD section and a Panchakarma treatment unit will be opened before the end of this year.

The entire hospital complex will include a two and a half acre herbal garden.

The cultivation of medicinal plants in the herbal garden will also be started on this day followed by the distribution of sets of clay pots and pans among a group of 500 families in Siribopura and its environs and the presentation of Registration certificates to private Ayurveda Medical centres in the District by two ministers.