The Hon. (Dr.) Nalinda Jayatissa
Funds have been allocated for development work at Badulla Teaching Hospital, including completion of the ICU, Emergency Treatment Unit, and 10-storey Cardiology building, as well as provision of a 10-storey professorial unit and additional equipment. Regarding Lake House, the launch of the Tamil magazine “Vaaramangari” was confirmed, with recruitment to follow existing salary scales and no higher pay. It was also stated that specialists’ earlier trade union action to refrain from Technical Evaluation Committees has been called off.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Hon. Presiding Member, briefly responding to Hon. Chamara Sampath: we have allocated significant funds to Badulla Teaching Hospital over the next years. We are completing the stopped ICU, the Emergency Treatment Unit, and the 10-storey Cardiology building. Additionally, we will provide a 10-storey professorial unit and more equipment.
¶ 02 On Lake House: it is true we are launching the Tamil magazine “Vaaramangari”. Recruitment is as per existing salary scales; no higher pay will be given. Though earlier it was announced, as part of trade union action, that specialists would not sit on Technical Evaluation Committees, that action has now been called off.
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Cite as: The Hon. (Dr.) Nalinda Jayatissa. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 22 November 2025. No. 22972. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/22909