COLOMBO : Saudi Ambassador Khalid bin Hamoud Al-Kahtani received a delegation from the Development Evaluation Department of the Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) on Tuesday, February 27 in Colombo.
The visit was to conduct a post-implementation evaluation of the Epilepsy Hospital and Health Centers project in Sri Lanka, which was implemented by the Sri Lankan Ministry of Health at a cost of $75 million, with a contribution from the Saudi Fund for Development amounting to $32 million.
The project was the Epilepsy Hospital consists of 08 floors with a capacity of 242 beds within the national hospital complex in the capital of Colombo.
The hospital also meets the increasing health needs and provides services for treating epilepsy and convulsions resulting from an increase in the brain’s electrical energy.