Sri Lanka, March 13 -- The government has decided to upgrade the Homagama Base Hospital as a Teaching Hospital for the establishment of a Faculty of Medicine under the National School of Business Management (NSBM), Cabinet Spokesman, Mass Media Minister Dr. Bandula Gunawardhana said.

Speaking at the weekly Cabinet media briefing held yesterday at the Government Information Department, Minister Gunawardhana said that the Cabinet of Ministers approved the proposal presented by President Ranil Wickremesinghe to take over the Homagama Base Hospital under the purview of the Health Ministry and upgrade it as a Teaching Hospital.

He further said that the NSBM green university is a state-owned institution started when Dullas Alahapperuma was th...