The
Green Memorial Hospital is located in Manipay,
Jaffna, SriLanka.
In 1848, Dr Samual Green founded Manipay Hospital, which later
was renamed Green Memorial Hospital. This mission
hospital was the first medical school in Sri Lanka and was
a flourishing state of the art medical institution for more
than a century, its main objective to provide medical service
to the surrounding communities.
The buildings are now in serious disrepair
and there are five main buildings which needs immediate attention.
Due to the near civil war situation in SriLanka
the hospital was not able to function properly. There was
a lack of doctors, nurses and other professionals to run the
hospital. As a result the hospital had wound up most of its
operations and ground to a virtual standstill. The governors
were reliant on church funding to merely maintain the premises.
The church could not sustain the funding indefinitely.
The hospital has suffered some collateral
damage due to war that had afflicted Sri Lanka and got into
serious state of disrepair. This had forced the hospital to
function only on a limited capacity.
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