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Durdans completes modernisation project
Durdans Hospitals, one of the island's oldest private hospitals that originated as the principal British Military Hospital here, has announced the completion of a five-year structured modernization programme.

It has 127 beds with clinical departments housed in nine wards, an Intensive Care Unit (ICU), Coronary Care Unit (CCU), Emergency Treatment Unit (ETU) a Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) and four operation theaters.

The clinical department is supported by a radiological investigation unit comprising a fluoroscopy x-ray unit, two ultrasound machines, a 3D spiral CT scan, a mammogram, a video endoscopy and colonoscopy unit and a modern blood bank.

The clinical pathology lab is fully automated. Over 200 collecting centres throughout the country bring in samples for tests, over and above the Colombo collections. In 1996, with the strategic partnership of Escorts Hearts Institute and Research Centre, Durdans initiated the single centre concept Cardiac Centre. Durdans is now well equipped not only to do open heart bypass surgeries but also valve replacements at an almost 100 percent success rate, a company statement said.
Cataract surgery is now available as an out patient procedure at Durdans.

The latest Phaco surgical equipment from USA, which is considered the latest version to emulsify a hardened cataract under low heat conditions causing less trauma to the eye and a quicker recovery, has been introduced at Durdans.
This procedure could be completed in less than an hour, enabling patients to leave the hospital within a few hours of the operation.

ComBank gifts safety bottle lamps to schools
Commercial Bank recently launched a corporate social responsibility campaign gifting children from 30 schools in Kanduruwela, Galewala and Polonnaruwa in the north-central and north-east regions with two safety bottle lamps each for their home.

These three areas were picked because they are seriously affected by power failures. In the first phase of the project, 15,000 lamps designed by the Safe Lamp Foundation of Sri Lanka would be handed out to rural homes.

According to official figures, 25 to 30 people get burnt everyday because of unsafe bottle lamps while one of these persons succumb to such injuries.

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