493/2025

Hon. Padmasiri Bandara,—To ask the Minister of Health and Mass Media,— (1)

(a) Will he inform this House —

(i) of the number of Ayurveda hospitals in Sri Lanka;

(ii) of the number of graduates who have completed their degrees from universities of indigenous medicine;

(iii) whether he is aware that there is a shortage of Ayurveda doctors at local Ayurveda hospitals at present; and

(iv) if so, of the measures that will be taken in that regard?

(b) Will he also inform this House—

(i) whether he is aware that there is a physiotherapy unit at the Minneriya Ayurveda Hospital;

(ii) of the name of the contractor who constructed the physiotherapy unit concerned;

(iii) whether he is aware that there has been a fraud in relation to that contract;

(iv) if so, whether an investigation has been conducted in that regard; and

(v) ​​of the current progress of that investigation?

(c) If not, why?