Govt. to modernise the ICU of Maligawatte Renal Dialysis and Transplant unit

The Renal Dialysis and Transplant unit at Maligawatte provides an immense service to the patients coming from all over the island.

In this hospital both Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and the Isolation Unit are situated inside the residential patient’s ward.  As a result, patients who undergo renal transplants are under severe risk of getting infections.

Therefore, to minimize that risk, a proposal made by the.Minister of Health and Indigenous Medicine to renovate the intensive care unit considering it as an urgent requirement so as to keep those patients in the ICU, was approved by the Cabinet of  Ministers at the weekly Cabinet Meeting held last Wednesday.