Lanka Hospitals – national and international resource for professionally qualified nurses
View(s):Lanka Hospitals PLC has opened its doors to foreign student nurses from the Asian region in a programme that has been very successful. Following an agreement with the Maldivian government, from 2008 onwards, two batches of approximately 30 Maldivian student nurses every year are given clinical training at Lanka Hospitals, the company said in a media release.
Coordinator of Lanka Hospitals Education Center, Deputy Chief Matron Chitra Damayanthi stated that the hospital is planning similar agreements for student nurse training and advanced training for trained nurses with several other countries and private medical institutions, among them Seychelles, Myanmar and Bangladesh.
The ongoing training of student nurses from other countries, is an endorsement of the high level of training and professionalism of the Lanka Hospitals Nurses Training School (LHNTS). “While the hospital is committed to taking their nurses training beyond our shores and become a regional centre for nurses’ training, it is also proud to have contributed 37 of its professionally trained nurses to the National Healthcare Services sector recently,” it said.
Medical Superintendent Dr. Sunil Ratnapreya added “every year we have approximately 50 students enrolling to pass out as nurses. Owing to the demand by students for us to accept more and the industry for more of our nurses with their high calibre of professionalism, we increased enrolments this year to 90 students with the expansion of necessary learning facilities.”