Karapitiya Hospital gets high-tech medical equipment from France

The French company has supplied two sets of high tech medical equipment to the Karapitiya Teaching Hospital in Galle. The opening ceremony of the new operating theatres of the hospital was inaugurated by the Ambassador of France, Christine Robichon at the invitation of the Sri Lankan authorities.

A Twin Modular Operating Theatre and a Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory Angiography System from the French company Euroformed have been financed by a soft loan granted by the Government of France, for a total amount of 9.5 million Euros (1.6 billion LKR), to upgrade the medical equipment of public hospitals in several cities of Sri Lanka, mainly Galle, Jaffna, Polonnaruwa and Anuradhapura, states the French embassy in Colombo.

“The enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being and France is particularly happy to contribute to the improvement of the capacities of the Sri Lankan governmental hospitals to provide the best possible medical care to the people.

“France and French people have a long history of partnership with the district of Galle, to which a lot of support was channelled through French NGO’s after the tsunami,” adds the embassy.

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