Sri Lanka, Sept. 15 -- President Anura Kumara Dissanayake will preside over the foundation stone-laying ceremonies for four major hospital development projects worth seven billion one hundred and forty-eight million rupees on 16th of September.

The initiative aims to expand specialised healthcare services across the Northern, North Central, and Eastern provinces using loan assistance from the Japan International Cooperation Agency and grant funding from the Government of India.

Under the Japanese loan scheme, eight-storey cardiac care complexes will be built at the Anuradhapura Teaching Hospital at a cost of three billion five hundred and forty-five million rupees, and at the Trincomalee District General Hospital costing two billion fou...