The Premier Women’s Hospital In Sri Lanka
The Castle Street Hospital for Women is the premier women’s hospital in Sri Lanka. Able to serve a wide array of services to women, it currently has a strength of 442 beds. It provides services to expecting mothers, gynecological patients, sub fertile patients and neonates. The hospital performs more than 16000 deliveries per year. It also has one of the largest neonatal units in Sri Lanka. The hospital is a tertiary care teaching hospital and is a forerunner in training health staff.
The Castle Street hospital has a 24h OPD with number of clinics for follow up visits for patients. More than 100000 patients visit the hospital clinics every year. From year 2000, the hospital embarked on a project to improve productivity and quality and has been rewarded for maintaining high standards.
History
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1940 |
Dr S L Nawarathna and Sir Nicholas Attygalle proposed second women’s hospital to serve suburbs of Colombo |
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1947 |
The construction of the hospital started. |
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On 11th December 1950, first patient was admitted to the hospital |
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On 15th December 1950 at 9.30 am first girl baby was born |
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Initially there were six wards and one labour room in the hospital.
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There were one Obstetrician and one Resident Medical Officer with two House Officers. Further, there was one Matron with three Nursing Officers and three midwives and fifteen pupil midwives were helping them. The hospital also consisted two apothecaries and few subordinates. |
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From 11th December to 31st December 1950, there were 53 admissions and 23 deliveries |
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1952 |
P B U was opened. During this period there were 3567 deliveries per year. |
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1954 |
Second stage of the development plan of the hospital started |
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1955 |
Second VOG was appointed to the hospital. Gynaecology unit was started (two wards) Two operating theatres were opened |
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1958 |
Hospital was included in the Colombo Group of Hospitals. |
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1960 |
Five Obstetrics and Gynaecology unit started with five consultants. |
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1964 |
Upgraded to a teaching hospital. An ICU was started functioning. Auditorium and a library were opened for training purposes. |
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2000 |
Quality program started with the concept of “Quality Fails when System Fails’ and ‘Quality Health Care through Productivity’.
Establishment of Lactation Management Center |
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2003 |
Identified as the Focal Point for National Quality Assurance Program |
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2004 |
Hospital recognized the importance of Human Resource Management and established a separate unit for staff training |
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2005 |
Opening of new Operating Theatre for Caesarian Sections only |
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2006 |
New Intensive care unit for neonates was opened |
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2009 |
New quarters for Medical officers was opened.
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2010 |
Work on new OPD building started |
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2015 |
New Clinic building was opened |
