Lanka Hospitals achieves record gains since January 2015

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Lanka Hospitals has reported an outstanding performance in the first half of their current financial year, with an 81 percent increase in group profits before tax.

The Group Profit before Tax (PBT) stood at Rs.428 million for the first six months of the financial year 2015, compared to Rs.236 million recorded in the corresponding period of the financial year 2014.

“The revenue for the first half of the financial year 2015, increased by 20 percent to Rs.2.65 billion compared to Rs.2.2 billion recorded during the corresponding period of the fiscal year 2014,” said Chairman, Lanka Hospitals, Dr. Sarath Paranavitane.

Medical services at Lanka Hospitals have expanded in all areas, including a 3 year training for nursing staff and educational programs for new parents.
Their achievements, accolades and awards are impressive; Lanka Hospitals surpassed the 750th successful kidney transplant, handled more than 800 IVF births and the highest number of adult and paediatric cardiac surgeries in the private sector.

The hospital will soon open their special unit for bone marrow transplants aided by Sri Lanka’s only dedicated hemato-oncology (blood cancer) facility, and another specialized center for gastroenterology. The proposed Gastroenterology (GE) Center will be equipped with cutting edge technology and Sri Lanka’s only PH Manometry and EUS (Endoscopic Ultrasound) machines with a renowned bevy of Consultant doctors.

While curing and healing, Lanka Hospitals also takesin their stride the responsibility of training and has one of the most comprehensive nurses’ training schools in the country.Lanka Hospitals’ Nurses’ Training School (LHNTS) has 392 fully trained nurses, with a 111 assisting student nurses (under supervision) serving in every area of the hospital.

Two batches of approximately 30 Maldivian student nurses every year are given clinical training at LHNTS.In an extension of their corporation with the Maldives, Lanka Hospitals signed a MOU with Aasandha Insurance to provide specialist doctors to all corners of The Maldives. Three specialized consultants were sent to Kulhudhuffushi & Gang (Addu) Islands respectively for consultation in Hithadhoo regional hospitals (addu) & Kulhudhuffushi regional hospitals recently.

Since January this year, Lanka Hospitals has conducted 4 clinical training programmes for Medical Officers from Bangladesh and hopes to conduct many more such training courses.

“We are constantly hunting for new innovative opportunities for new sources of income. We are looking seriously at improving the medical tourism sector, known to have a huge growth in this region. We hope to take Lanka Hospitals to the next level by providing our talented body of consultant specialists with the state of the art equipment and any other support they need, to compete, not only inter-hospital at home, but also internationally, to make us one of the, if not the, best private health care service provider in South East Asia,” said Chairman, Procurement Committee of Lanka Hospitals Dr. Rohan Wijesundera.

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