Administrative Services

The following are undertaken by the administrative unit:

  • Confirmation of appointments
  • Handling Promotions of health care workers
  • Retirement of officers
  • Extension of appointments
  • Granting permission for the payment of language allowance
  • Disciplinary actions
  • Legal acquisition of land allocated to the health department
  • Mediating transfers of health care workers
  • Granting leave for travelling abroad
  • With regard to vehicles:
    • granting permission for travelling outside the province
    • granting permission for the repairs of vehicles

Planning and Development

Responsibilities of the planning Unit:

  • Preparation, monitoring and evaluation of development plans (five year plan and annual plans)
  • Dissemination of information of the Provincial Health Services through Annual report and website (being designed)
  • Monitoring of Human resources availability and Human resource forecasting
  • Monitoring of Government and special projects such as WB,UNICEF,UNFPA
  • Data base on the availability of Health services and facilities infra, resources
  • Identify Provincial, National and Foreign training needs
  • Coordinate the Identification of  equipment needs,
  • Coordinate preparation special development projects such as Hospice unit, rehabilitation hospitals, estate health development
  • Coordinate with other planning units such as MoH and Chief Secretary
  • Operational research

Special Units

Regional Health Training Centre (RHTC) - Kadugannawa

Head of the institution Dr. Anura Rajapaksha
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Tel/Fax +94 812 571 252

 

The RHTC function as a training centre for conducting both basic and in-service training courses / programs. Prior to 1990 only PHMM basic training part II was conducted in Kadugannawa. Later it was upgraded as part of the strengthening of the basic services program in Sri Lanka

There are two main areas of services supported by the RHTC.

 

  1. Training.
    • Basic training of primary health care personnel, namely Public Health Inspectors and Public Health Midwives.
    • Basic training for medical, dental and nursing students on community health.
    • Coordination of all the Provincial level in-service training for both preventive and curative health staff.
  2. Provide primary health care services to the public through the field staff. 
    • This includes maternal and child health care (immunization, ante natal care, post natal care, well women clinic & family planning), environmental health, food sanitation, occupational health, estate health and school health etc. Special effort has been taken to improve the care provided as “model area” to facilitate the learning of all students.

 


 

Bio-Medical Engineering Services Unit

Head of the institution Mrs. D.M.I Dissanayake
Address Dutugemunu Mawatha, Watapuluwa
Tel/Fax +94 812 210 616

 

The repairing of all medical equipment prior to 2002 was carried out by the Bio- medical Engineering Services unit in Colombo (BES). There are 224 hospitals under the Central Provincial Health Department and it was impossible for the BES to take care of equipment repair and maintenance and large number of serviceable medical equipment were stocked in hospitals unable to be used due to minor repair. Medical equipment needing major repairs in secondary care hospitals were done by the BME unit on urgent requests. The Province did not have proper procedures for purchasing, condemning and maintenance of medical equipment. The Central Province Bio - Medical Engineering Services unit was established in November 2002 with the aim providing better coordinated support services within the Province to do equipment purchasing, maintenance and attend to minor repairs to medical equipment and to maximize the equipment usage time.

Major Functions of BME Unit- Central Province

  • Repair of medical, surgical and other equipment in the health institutions within the   Central Province
  • Provision of reports on equipment and other items to be condemned in health institutions
  • Provision of technical guidance on purchasing of new equipment to health institutions.
  • Provision of quality reports on newly purchased medical equipment.
  • Distribution of newly purchased equipment to health institutions.
  • Keeping inventory of medical equipment available at institutions.
  • Training health staff on maintenance of medical equipment.
 

Special Services

01. Patient Rehabilitation Services

Physical Rehabilitation Center, Digana

Head of the institution Dr. E. M. C. Ekanayaka
Tel/Fax +94 812 374 213
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Due to lack of facilities and trained staff, the rehabilitation of physically disabled patients does not get adequate attention in the general health services. Most acute cases are managed in surgical and medical wards in general hospitals after which the patients may get discharged without any attention being paid to rehabilitation. Usually they end up as bed ridden or wheel chair dependant disabled citizens and are a burden to their family and society.  
According to the 1999 statistics of Teaching Hospital Kandy, for the 1st six month of 1999, 1100 patients who needed medium and long term rehabilitation were discharged without a proper rehabilitation plan.

Special Campaigns

01. Respiratory Disease Control Unit

The resurgence of tuberculosis globally, and its association with HIV and the emergence of multi-drug resistant TB has made tuberculosis a communicable disease of high priority. Matale and Nuwaraeliya Respiratory Disease control units, are attached to District General Hospitals. Respiratory Disease control unit Kandy is functioning separately at Bogambara while inward patients care located at Teaching Hospital Kandy. All three units are functions under purview of the consultants’ chest physicians.