Jaffna Teaching Hospital

Jaffna Teaching Hospital
Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka
Jaffna Teaching Hospital is located in Central Jaffna
Jaffna Teaching Hospital
Location in central Jaffna
Geography
LocationHospital Road, Jaffna, Jaffna District, Northern Province, Sri Lanka
Coordinates9°39′57.50″N 80°00′52.50″E / 9.6659722°N 80.0145833°E / 9.6659722; 80.0145833
Organisation
Care systemPublic
FundingGovernment hospital
TypeTeaching
Affiliated universityUniversity of Jaffna
Services
Emergency departmentYes
Beds1,228
Links
Websitethjaffna.lk
ListsHospitals in Sri Lanka

Jaffna Teaching Hospital is a government hospital in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. It is the leading hospital in the Northern Province and the only hospital in the province controlled by the central government in Colombo. The hospital is the only teaching hospital in the Northern Province. The hospital is the main clinical teaching facility for the University of Jaffna's Faculty of Medicine.[1] As of 2010 it had 1,228 beds.[2]

As well as general medical and surgical care the hospital provides a wide variety of healthcare services including cardiology, diabetic, dentistry, dermatology, family planning, gynaecology, neurology, obstetrics (ante-natal), oncology, ophthalmology, orthopaedics, otolaryngology (ENT), paediatrics and psychiatry.[3] The hospital also has an emergency department, an intensive care unit, a premature baby unit, a primary health care unit, a pathological laboratory and a blood bank service.[1]

In 2010 the hospital had 111,129 in-patient admissions, 268,922 out-patient visits and 476,616 clinic visits.[3]

  1. ^ a b "Teaching Hospital". University of Jaffna. Archived from the original on 2011-10-02.
  2. ^ "Under Line Ministry Beds 2010" (PDF). Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-09-27. Retrieved 2011-08-24.
  3. ^ a b "2010 Statistics" (PDF). Jaffna Regional Directorate of Health Services. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-31.