Senapura Rehabilitation Centre is a rehabilitation centre located in the Welikanda Divisional Secretariat,

Polonnaruwa District Polonnaruwa District (; ) is one of the 25 districts of Sri Lanka, the second level administrative division of the country. It is also one of the two districts of North Central Province and has an area of 3,293 km2. The district is adminis ...

, North Central Province in Sri Lanka. The rehabilitation centre is currently used to treat drug addicts and COVID-19 patients along with Kandakadu Treatment and Rehabilitation Centre. The rehabilitation centre was also used as a workshop to give counselling to former LTTE members and awareness about

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by the Ministry of Environment. In March 2020, the rehabilitation centre was proposed by the

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as one of the major quarantine centres to conduct PCR tests for passengers and tourists from foreign countries during the

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. In August 2020 the Sri Lankan government made compulsory guidelines for foreign passengers to undergo a 14-day mandatory self quarantine at the centre.

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