Sri Lankan hospital to raise funds to expand, reduce debt

Sri Lanka-based Asiri Hospitals is planning to raise fresh equity capital to help finance a new hospital and reduce debt, a senior official said. Currently the Asiri Hospitals Group has hospitals which include Asiri Hospital, Asiri Surgical Hospital, Asiri Central Hospital (formerly Asha Central), Asiri Hospital Matara and Asiri Diagnostics. The new hospital, called The Central, is just meters away from Colombo National Hospital, the island's main state-run hospital.