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The following is a list of hospitals in Colombo District, Sri Lanka. The biggest government hospitals in the district, known as line ministry hospitals, are controlled by the central government in Colombo .
The National Hospital of Sri Lanka (sometimes General Hospital) is a government hospital in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Founded in 1864 as the General Hospital, it is the leading hospital in Sri Lanka and is controlled by the central government. The hospital has 18 intensive care units and 21 operating theaters and 3,404 beds.
The association does not regulate or certify doctors, a responsibility which lies with the Sri Lanka Medical Council. It carries out education and academic programs in family medicine. From 1980 to 1989 it formed and administrated the first private medical school in the country, the North Colombo Medical College offering its own MBBS degree. [1]
Annual sessions were followed by the general meeting. Presidential address preceded the annual dinner in the evening. In 1994, the members unanimously adopted a resolution to convert the association to a college. It was named The College of Community Physicians of Sri Lanka. Professor Dulitha Fernando was the first president. Initial membership ...
The hospital was founded in 1905 by Dr. E.V. Ratnam. It was the first privately owned hospital in Sri Lanka. Ownership was then transferred to Dr. Kumaran Ratnam, who also served as Mayor of Colombo in 1950. [2] Most recently, the hospital was owned and headed by Dr. Ganesh Ratnam, until his passing in 2018. [3]
The CCP was founded in Ceylon in 1967 after an informal meeting of eleven physicians on 25 July in the Consultants' Lounge of the General Hospital Colombo. The inaugural meeting of the College was held on 26 September of that year.
In 1887, the Diploma of Licentiate of Medicine and Surgery (LMS) granted by the College became registrable with the General Medical Council (GMC) of the United Kingdom. The Ceylon Medical College and the Ceylon University College , which had been established in 1921, formed the nucleus of the University of Ceylon , which came into being in 1942.
The oldest hospital is the Syros General Hospital in Ermoupoli, Syros, founded 1827 during the Greek revolution. 19 hospitals that were founded in the 19th century. 7 hospitals in Athens, 2 hospitals (1 closed in 2013) in Thessaloniki and Patras (1 closed in 1871) and 1 hospital in Syros, Ioannina, Volos, Missolonghi, Tripoli, Rethymno, Lesbos ...