Ceylinco Healthcare partners with Kings Hospital Colombo

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Ceylinco Healthcare Services Chairman R. Renganathan (3rd from right) and Kings Hospital Chairman Dr. Palitha Abeykoon exchange the agreement in the presence of (from left): Kings Hospital Director Ethics and Governance Dr. Upali Banagala, Managing Director Prof. Srinath Chandrasekera, CHSL Director Thushara Ranasinghe and CHSL Medical Director Prof. Rohan Jayasekera

Ceylinco Healthcare Services Ltd. and Kings Hospital Colombo have announced a collaboration to provide comprehensive medical care at concessionary rates to benefit patients of both institutions.

With the new partnership, Ceylinco Healthcare will provide state-of-the-art cancer-related treatments to patients of Kings Hospital and the latter will provide comprehensive medical care including top end diagnostics, surgery and rehabilitation programs to patients through multi-disciplinary teams of highly trained and competent specialists and doctors in Sri Lanka.

“We believe that patient outcomes must take precedence over everything else, and to that end seek to collaborate with like-minded institutions,” Ceylinco Healthcare Services Chairman R. Renganathan said. “We have also recently entered into a partnership with the Apollo Proton Care Centre in Chennai to facilitate treatment for our patients at the only proton beam therapy centre in South Asia. It is expected that the Ceylinco Healthcare-Kings Hospital collaboration will enhance the quality of treatment and patient comfort especially when dealing with issues such as cancer.

Kings Hospital Colombo has allocated a special counter and a help desk at its consultation lounge that will enable the two institutions to coordinate with patients and oncologists in order to ensure seamless medical care to patients.

Kings Hospital Colombo is an ultra-modern, multi-specialty corporate hospital with 120 beds. With a patient-centric contemporary design, it is committed to providing compassionate and high-quality medical care of international standards with a focus on providing the best clinical outcomes at optimum cost. King’s Hospital Colombo is the newest addition to private health care in Colombo and is equipped with the most modern diagnostics such as digital mammography, MRI, CT and laboratory services.

All operating theatres are modular type conforming to highest standards in the health care sector. Kings Hospital provides a comprehensive range of services including gastroenterology, urology, orthopaedics, chest medicine and thoracic surgery, plastic surgery, ophthalmology, dental surgery, transplant surgery and dialysis, gynaecology and obstetrics, paediatric surgery and cardiology. All ancillary services such as ICU, dialysis service, physiotherapy, rehabilitation facilities are set to the highest standards to ensure the best possible care to patients.