Primary Education Teachers for Lady Ridgeway Hospital

The Government has decided to allocate five Diploma holders who join the Teachers’ Service from the National Colleges of Education: four Sinhala medium and one Tamil medium, to visit the Lady Ridgeway Children’s Hospital.  These Diploma holders will keep the student patients engaged in educational activities.

 Children between the age group of 5-12 years from all parts of the country visit the Lady Ridgeway Children’s Hospital for medical treatment and some of them who are warded in the hospital for several months for treatment purposes neglect their education by not being able to attend the school for a considerable period.

 In order to overcome this situation, the proposal submitted by Minister of Education Bandula Gunawardena to allocate five Diploma holders to visit the said hospital was approved by the Cabinet of Ministers.