1. By A.H. Dilip Kumara Medical Physicist Sri Lanka
Country Report By
A.H. Dilip Kumara
Medical Physicist
Sri Lanka

2. Sri Lanka
Population : 20 million

3. Cancer Centres in Sri Lanka
National Cancer centre – Maharagama
Celinco cancer centre - Colombo
Teaching Hospital Kandy
Teaching Hospital Karapitiya
General Hospital Badulla
General Hospital Anuradhapura
General Hospital Jaffna

4. National Cancer centre – Maharagama
No of Radiotherapy patients : 8,000 per year
Work load : 400 patients per day
Equipment:
- Linear Accelerator
(Varian, dual energy)
- Cobalts (Theratron)
- HDR (micro selectron) -01
- CT Simulator (Toshiba) -01
- TPS (Eclips, Theraplan)
Staff:
Oncologists - 07
Medical Physicists - 03
Radiographers (Therapy) -15

5. Celinco Cancer centre No of Radiotherapy patients : 350 per year
Work load : 30 patients per day
Equipment:
- Linear Accelerator
(Simens, dual energy)
- HDR (micro selectron) -01
- CT Simulator (Simens) -01
- TPS
Staff:
Oncologists - 01
Medical Physicists - 01
Radiographers (Therapy) -05

6. Teaching Hospital Kandy
No of Radiotherapy patients : 2,000 per year
Work load : 150 patients per day
Equipment:
- Cobalts (Theratron)
- LDR (Curitron, Cs-137) - 01
- TPS (Theraplan)
Staff:
Oncologists - 02
Medical Physicists - 01
Radiographers (Therapy) -10

7. Teaching Hospital Karapitiya
No of Radiotherapy patients : 1,000 per year
Work load : 80 patients per day
Equipment:
- Cobalts (Theratron) - 01
- CT Simulator
- TPS (Xio, focus)
Staff:
Oncologists - 02
Medical Physicists - 02
Radiographers (Therapy) -08

9. Anuradhapura Hospital
Badulla Hospital
No of Radiotherapy patients : 700 per year
Work load : 40 patients per day
Equipment:
- Cobalts (Theratron)
Staff:
Oncologists - 01
Radiographers (Therapy) -03
Anuradhapura Hospital
No of Radiotherapy patients : 500 per year
Work load : 30 patients per day
Equipment:
- Cobalts (Theratron)
Staff:
Oncologists - 01
Radiographers (Therapy) -02

10. Medical Physics Programme
M.Sc from University of Peradeniya
New batch started on
(14 students)
Problems:
Lack of Qualified Lecturers in Medical physics
(due to shortage of senior medical physicists)
B.Sc. Degree programme for Radiography & Radiotherapy