Cardiology unit of the National Hospital provides invaluable patient care service to heart patients coming from all over Sri Lanka. However, the building complex where Cardiology unit is established is very old.

When compared with the service provision of the unit, the rooming facilities are not adequate at all. Therefore, patients who come to obtain treatment as well as hospital staff including specialist doctors face great difficulties.

In order to finding out solutions for the above mentioned inadequate space problem, Urban Development Authority has pointed out that there is a land called “Bosevana Watta” adjacent to Cardiology Unit belonging to the National Hospital occupied by 63 unauthorized settlers.

As there is no land available, to expand the Specialized Surgical theatres, Intensive Care Units, Recovery Units, Catheterization Units and out patients unit of the Cardiology Unit, it is an urgent need to remove these unauthorized settlers in “Bosevana Watta”.

The Urban Development Authority has proposed that they could provide 63 housing units to these people from a housing scheme under their Urban Reawakening Project and requested Rs. 189 Million to provide them houses.

Accordingly, a proposal made by the Ministry of Health and Indigenous Medicine to pay Rs. 189 Million to the Urban Development Authority and establish the cardiology treatment units in the “Bosevana Watta” land, has been approved by the Cabinet of Ministers.