Sri Lanka, June 11 -- President Gotabaya Rajapaksa declared open the China-Sri Lanka Friendship National Nephrology Specialized Hospital in Polonnaruwa this morning (11).

Sri Lanka received the hospital complex as a full grant from the Chinese Government at the request of former President Maithripala Sirisena during his visit to China in 2015, the President's Media Division (PMD) said in a statement.

The hospital complex spans over an area of 16 acres and has been designed with the influence of ancient architecture of Sri Lanka and China.

Built at a cost of Rs. 12,000 million within 30 months, the hospital consists of five operating theatres with modern facilities for kidney transplants and can accommodate 200 in-house patients. The nu...