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On his return to Sri Lanka he worked in Nuwara Eliya as a visiting physician and in 1970 was appointed consultant physician at General Hospital Colombo (later National Hospital of Sri Lanka), a post he occupied for twenty years, working with colleagues Surendra Ramachandran (with whom he co founded the medical intensive care unit in National Hospital of Sri Lanka), P. T. de Silva, W. A. S. de ...
The Lady Ridgeway Hospital for Children is a tertiary care children's hospital in Colombo, Sri Lanka. With a bed-strength of over 1200, it is now considered to be the largest children's hospital in the world [citation needed]. Established by public subscription in 1895 as the Lady Havelock Hospital for Women and Children, it was named the Lady ...
Life expectancy in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka scores higher than the regional average in healthcare having a high life expectancy and a lower maternal and infant death rate than its neighbors. [1] [2] In 2018 life expectancy was 72.1 for men and 78.5 for women ranking the country 70th in the world. [3]
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 ...
Self-management is the cornerstone for successful health outcomes in diabetes patients as there is a positive association between self-management behaviour and care outcomes. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Self-management stresses the importance of the role of an individual and their responsibility in developing skilled behaviours to manage one's own illness.
Galle National Hospital, located in Karapitiya, Galle, is the largest tertiary care centre in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka. [1] It was established in 1982 and is the main training facility for the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ruhuna .
Colombo Business Journal - Faculty of Management and Finance [2] International Journal of Advance in ICT for Emerging Regions (ICTer) [3] Sri Lanka Journal of International Law — Faculty of Law, University of Colombo [4] Student Medical Journal – Faculty of Medicine; University of Colombo Review; Colombo Law Review - Faculty of Law
The Ministry of Health [3] (Sinhala: සෞඛ්ය අමාත්යාංශය, romanized: Saukhya Amāthyānshaya; Tamil: சுகாதார அமைச்சு, romanized: Cukātāra Amaiccu) is the central government ministry of Sri Lanka responsible for health. The ministry is responsible for formulating and implementing ...