Construction on schedule for SL’s first TomoTherapy facility
View(s):Ceylinco Healthcare Services Ltd (CHSL) said this week that construction of its second Radiation Treatment Unit is on schedule, with much of the concrete bunker that will house the country’s first TomoTherapy Treatment System nearing completion.
Here officials inspect the construction of Sri Lanka's first TomoTherapy unit. From left - Messrs K. Senadeera -Senior Assistant Manager Projects of Ceylinco Life, Valeri Zassedatel - Project Manager Tomotherapy Inc, Belgium, Sithira Narasinghe - Technical Service Manager DIMO (Pvt.) Ltd, Jagmeet Singh - Technical Support Manager Accuray Medical Equipment (India) Pvt. Ltd, and W. M. Rathnasinghe- Resident Engineer Ceylinco Life.
An inspection team comprising foreign and local experts visited the construction site at Park Street, Colombo 2 in March, and provided clearance for the next stage of construction of the shielding structure, the company said in a statement.
“As part of our quality control process, the Tomotherapy Installation Project Manager/Specialist Valeri Zassedatel from Belgium and Jagmeet Singh, the Technical Support Manager from India are required to visit the project site at different stages of the construction of the building and the bunker,” a spokesman for CHSL explained.
“They were joined by a team of local construction specialists involved in the project and were completely satisfied with the precise measurements and quality of the shielding structure under construction,” he said.
The inspection team scrutinised the system mounting location, mechanical details, electrical wiring including ducting and conducting, the operator station requirements, planning station requirements, and data server requirements, before signing off on clearance to proceed to the next phase of construction.
Ceylinco Healthcare Services has made an investment of $ 3.725 million (about Rs 500 million) for the TomoTherapy Hi.ArtR Treatment System capable of treatment of the full spectrum of cancers.
The TomoTherapy treatment system enables Image Guided Radiation Treatment (IGRT), which brings a new dimension in delivering precise radiation to the target and sparing normal tissue. As both a treatment delivery machine and a CT scanner, the TomoTherapy system allows doctors to take a CT scan just before each treatment. With the scan, they can verify the position of the tumour and, if necessary, adjust the patient’s position to help make sure radiation is directed right where it should be.
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