Stamford human-relief nonprofit AmeriCares says it funded a $2.8 million addition to ease overcrowding at a Sri Lanka hospital.
The expansion of Trincomalee District General Hospital includes an 83,000-square-foot addition that adds 250 beds, operating rooms, a laboratory complex and a neonatal intensive care unit.
AmeriCares said the project expands the hospital’s capacity to treat patients in an area ravaged by the 2004 tsunami and the long-running civil conflict that ended in 2009.
In June, AmeriCares said it broke ground on another hospital project – a major addition to the Mullaitivu District General Hospital in northeastern Sri Lanka.
When completed, the $1 million project will add a 53-bed surgical ward with two operating rooms, recovery area, intensive care unit, physician housing and a central sterilizing facility for all of the hospital’s equipment and supplies.
In 2009, AmeriCares completed a $3.2 million addition onto the District Base Hospital at Elpitiya, doubling the number of beds and adding the first private delivery rooms in the region.
