Sri Lanka expands medical education with new Saudi-funded university complex
COLOMBO: A new medical college complex in southwestern Sri Lanka, financed by the Saudi Fund for Development, was inaugurated on Saturday, marking the latest Saudi assistance aimed at improving healthcare and education in the island nation.
The $50 million project for the Faculty of Medicine at the Sabaragamuwa University covers academic buildings, laboratories, a library, a 1,000-seat auditorium, student hostels, staff quarters, and a professorial unit at the nearby Ratnapura teaching hospital.
The investment is a collaboration with the Sri Lankan government, which built administrative and paraclinical buildings, as well as additional infrastructure in the complex.
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya, who is also the country’s education minister, attended the inauguration ceremony along with SFD Deputy CEO Faisal Al-Kahtani, and Saudi Ambassador to Sri Lanka Khalid bin Hamoud Al-Kahtani.
“Together, this partnership has created one of Sri Lanka’s newest and most modern medical education facilities,” Nirmali Wickramaratne, dean of the Faculty of Medicine, told Arab News.

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