Ten double-cab vehicles for health institutions with World Bank support

Ten double-cab vehicles provided under the World Bank-funded Primary Healthcare System Enhancing Project were officially handed over by Health and Mass Media Minister Nalinda Jayatissa at the ministry premises on Friday (6th).

The vehicles will be used to strengthen primary health services at rural and regional levels, and will also support programmes to prevent and control communicable diseases and to improve mental health services.

They have been allocated to the RDHS offices of Nuwara Eliya, Puttalam, Monaragala, Polonnaruwa, Kalutara, Matara, Ratnapura, Trincomalee and Jaffna, and to the Kalutara National Institute of Health Sciences.