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Ruins of a 2,000 year old hospital in the historical city of Anuradhapura. Sri Lankan medical traditions records back to pre historic era. Besides a number of medical discoveries that are only now being acknowledged by western medicine, according to the Mahawansa, the ancient chronicle of Sinhalese royalty King Pandukabhaya had lying-in-homes and hospitals (Sivikasotthi-Sala) built in various ...
Established in 1870 as the Colombo Medical School, ... A history of medicine in Sri Lanka - from the earliest time to 1948. Uragoda C G. 1987. Sri Lanka Medical ...
A Dictionary of the History of Science. CRC Press. 2001. ISBN 978-1850704188. [10] A Complete Illustrated History of Sri Lanka (2nd ed.). Sri Lanka: Vijitha Yapa Publications. 2014. ISBN 978-9556651492. [3] His Dictionary of the History of Medicine won a British Medical Association Medical Book Award. [3]
Hemas Hospitals is a Sri Lankan chain of hospitals based in Wattala. It expanded its developments in Thalawathugoda area in 2013 making it one of the largest ever known tertiary hospital chains in Sri Lanka. [citation needed] Hemas Hospitals also operates the largest medical diagnostic laboratory chain in Sri Lanka.
On the other hand, the Sri Lankan hela wedakama tradition is a mixture of Sinhala traditional medicine, mainland Äyurveda and Siddha systems of India, Unani medicine of Greece through the Arabs, and most importantly, the Desheeya Chikitsa, which is the indigenous medicine of Sri Lanka.
The Faculty of Medicine of the University of Kelaniya in Ragama, was established in 1991 and has advanced to be one of the leading medical faculties in Sri Lanka. Its inception was brought about by the affiliation of The North Colombo Medical College to the University of Kelaniya as the Faculty of Medicine by an act of parliament on the 2nd of ...
The Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA) is a trade union in Sri Lanka.Founded in 1926 as the Government Medical Officers' Association (Central Province) in Kandy, it was renamed as Government Medical Officers' Association of Ceylon in 1927 and in 1949 registered as a trade union under the leadership of Dr E. M. Wijerama.
On 4 March 2021, the institute was officially launched as the 16th National University of Sri Lanka by president Gotabaya Rajapaksa. [2] The university not only focuses on indigenous medicine but also includes programs in technology and modern medicine.