293/2024

Hon. Rauff Hakeem, Attorney at Law,—To ask the Minister of Health and Mass   Media,— (1)

(a) Will he admit that the —

(i) premises of the Ashroff Memorial Hospital in Kalmunai including its surgical wards, intensive care units, general wards, outpatient departments, clinics, and pharmaceutical warehouses were inundated due to the heavy floods caused by heavy rainfall which occurred in November 2024 in Sri Lanka;

(ii) hospital became defunct because of that; and

(iii) hospital premises where patients receive treatment must be safeguarded?

(b) Will he inform this House —

(i) whether the losses caused to the hospital by the floods have been assessed;

(ii) if so, of the damage concerned above;

(iii) of the steps taken to restore the damages; and

(iv) of the steps that will be taken to prevent such occurrences in the future and safeguard the hospital premises more?

(c) If not, why?