The Hon. Darmapriya Wijesinghe (on behalf of the Hon. Major General (Rtd.) G.D. Sooriyabandara)
Asked the Minister of Health and Mass Media to provide details on Sri Lanka’s teaching hospitals, including their number, locations, objectives, and required basic facilities. He further requested information on links between teaching hospitals and medical faculties, the establishment of professorial units, and a hospital-wise breakdown of those facilities, with particular focus on whether a professorial unit was planned and will be established at Kuliyapitiya Teaching Hospital for Wayamba University medical students. He also sought details of facilities provided by the present Government to Kuliyapitiya Teaching Hospital and reasons if any requested information or action is not forthcoming.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Question to the Minister of Health and Mass Media:
¶ 02 (a) Will he inform this House the (i) number of teaching hospitals established to date; (ii) areas where established; (iii) objectives of establishing a teaching hospital; and (iv) the basic facilities that should be available in such a hospital?
¶ 03 (b) Will he also inform this House (i) whether a medical faculty has been linked to every teaching hospital; (ii) whether a professorial unit has been established in every such hospital; (iii) the hospitals that have and those that do not have a professorial unit, separately; (iv) separately, the medical faculties linked to the said hospitals; (v) whether it had been intended to establish a professorial unit at the Kuliyapitiya Teaching Hospital for clinical training of Wayamba University medical students when that Hospital was made a teaching hospital; (vi) if so, whether that unit will be established in due course; (vii) if not, the reasons; and (viii) the facilities that have been provided by the present Government to the Kuliyapitiya Teaching Hospital?
¶ 04 (c) If not, why?
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- Hansard, Monday, 24 November 2025 ·No. 23008 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. Darmapriya Wijesinghe (on behalf of the Hon. Major General (Rtd.) G.D. Sooriyabandara). 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 24 November 2025. No. 23008. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/15271