The Sri Lankan Cabinet has approved a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Government of India to obtain a financial grant for the procurement of 100 new fully equipped medical ambulances for Sri Lanka’s 1990 Suwa Seriya National Emergency Ambulance Service.

 

The cabinet brief says that India has agreed to provide the grant following a special request made by Sri Lanka to strengthen the ambulance fleet and address the increasing number of mechanical breakdowns.

 

The 1990 Suwa Seriya National Emergency Ambulance Service was launched in 2016 with financial assistance from the Government of India and was expanded island-wide in 2018.

 

It provides a free, 24-hour emergency ambulance service covering all districts across the country, handling between 1,000 and 1,200 patient transport operations daily