Colombo South Teaching Hospital
This is one of the premier hospitals in Sri Lanka located in Kalubowila, catering to the needs not only for the people south of Colombo but also to many patients from other areas. This was opened as a Base Hospital in 1960 by then priminister Mrs Sirimavo Bandaranayake and more recently it has grown significantly since 1995 as a Teaching Hospital of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Sri Jayawardenapura. Since then in addition to training of medical students, it also trains post graduate doctors, nurses, paramedics and technicians.
The hospital has an approximate bed strength of 1089 in 34 wards. The outpatients department receives more than 1000 patients a day while around 350 patients are admitted daily.
It has 4 Professorial units in Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics and Gyneacology and Peadiatrics in additions to wards in these fields managed by Health Department consultant staff. In also has other units including Orthopedics, Psychiatry, Cardiology, Neurology, Dermatology, Rheumatology, Opthalmology, ENT and Maxillo- Facial Unit. These units are complemented by 7 special units which are the Accident service, Emergency Treatment Unit, High Dependency Unit, Medical and Surgical Intensive Care Units, Special Care Baby Unit and a Neonatal/Premature Baby Unit. These units are supported by an Out Patient Department, Blood bank, Radiology dept, Physiotherapy, Pharmacy, Laboratory services, ECG and EEG units, Forensic Medicine Unit, Infection Control Unit, Epidemiology, Health Education Unit and a Planning Unit. The surgical department is boosted by an Endoscopy unit and have specialised units in Oncological, Colo-rectal and Urological surgery. Hospital also has a dedicated ward for the clergy. Hospital runs 35 speciality clinics with an average attendance of around 3800 patients daily. It has 11 surgical theatres performing around 80 operations daily. The three labour rooms deliver about 830 babies a month.
The hospital is manned by around 2000 staff out of which 450 are doctors. This includes 54 consultant staff belonging to both Department of Health and the University. There are also around 350 nurses and 50 midwives. The university units support medical student batches of 150 per year.
Hospital has a major development plan from 2007 to 2016 which includes building complexes for the Accident service, Clinics and Surgical theatres.