Teaching Hospital- Badulla is a compassionate provider of patient-centered health services with an emphasis on tertiary-level specialty care, primarily for residents of Uva province. Our hospital provides a wide variety of specialized services across almost all health-care disciplines and collaborates with a wide range of partners to address the needs of the culturally diverse community and to build a strong, integrated system for regional health-care delivery.
In 2012 as the premier healthcare provider (1514 bedded) in the region, we continued to serve our patients with kindhearted healthcare of the highest quality and we had the opportunity to serve more than 750,000 patients including over 90000 in-patients with a dedicated staff of 2222.
Our roots are deep
Our origin dates back to an old Colonial Hospital, which was established in 1891 and Teaching Hospital – Badulla is one of the longest serving hospitals in the country. In year 2000 it was incorporated to the Line Ministry
Dr. (Mrs) Himali Wijegunasekara
Director
Dr. Hemantha De Silva
Deputy Director
Dr. Gayan Cooray
Deputy Director
Mr. W.K Rathnayaka
Accountant
Mr. Sugath Kithsiri
Administrative Officer
Mr. D.R.C Weerasekara
Chief Matron
Eng. Bandara
Medical Engineer
Mr. P. Abeysekara
Chief Phrmacist
Mrs. Deepa Nilmini
Chief MLT
Teaching Hospital, Badulla is the tertiary care level curative hospital and 1589 beds which catering services to almost 1.3 million population draining from almost 12000 sqkm geographical area in the Uva Province. All the secondary care district General Hospitals and peripheral hospitals in Uva province are referring patients to this center for specialized care.
Almost all the surgical and medical disciplines are available including 63 specialties and full spectrum of radiological and laboratory investigation facilities which is unparalleled to private sector which cater up to the Eastern province. Hospital has fully equipped dental, orthodontic and restorative dentistry clinic with experienced staff including consultants. Dedicated eye, gynecological and obstetrics, neurosurgical and oncosurgical theatres running throughout the week is a great strength to us. Transplant unit is functioning during last 3 years with 40 successful kidney transplants and heading toward liver transplants in coming year. The interventional radiology unit is fully functioning now and to expand further towards microwave tumor ablation.
Fully equipped medical and surgical intensive care units with 32 beds, HDU with bed capacity of 17 and NICU with 5 beds are assets to the hospital in managing critically ill patients and continuation of post-operative critical care. We have a 24 hour functioning ETU with all facilities under 2 consultant emergency physicians and well trained dedicated staff. Endoscopy unit with upper and lower GI endoscopies available for diagnosis and treatment. With the upgrade to Teaching hospital from 01/05/2023 current facilities and human resources including consultants and number of specialties will be upgraded in coming years.
Hospital administrative building is running with a computer network and radiological and laboratory investigations to be delivered through a network, which the phase-01 is completed connecting ICU, ETU, medical and surgical complexes.