Private hospitals will be exempted from VAT next week said Mangala Samaraweera Minister of Finance and Media, at a function held in Matara.
In addition to providing free health services and medication at government hospitals the government has reduced the price of essential medicines and is providing stents free of charge to heart patients and free lenses to eye patients. As a measure of further relief the government will exempt private hospitals from VAT effective next week, the Minister reiterated.
Minister Samaraweera made this assurance at a function organized to hand over the final installment of compensation to persons affected by floods in May last year and land grants to persons who were given alternate land after the 2004 tsunami.
District Secretary Matara Pradeep Rathnayaka, Provincial Minister of Education, Land and Highways Chandima Rasaputhra and Divisional Secretary Matara Darshana Wickremarachchi addressed about 400 of the 5,137 persons in the Matara district who received Rs1,598 million in compensation.
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