{"id":419,"date":"2023-09-02T13:03:51","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T13:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdhs.oliviahospital.lk\/?page_id=419"},"modified":"2026-10-15T15:06:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T09:36:59","slug":"services-provided-by-rdhs-kalmunai","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/healthdept.ep.gov.lk\/rdhs-kl\/services-provided-by-rdhs-kalmunai\/","title":{"rendered":"SERVICES PROVIDED BY RDHS KALMUNAI"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"419\" class=\"elementor elementor-419\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2fe09bf elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2fe09bf\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_ha_eqh_enable&quot;:false}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"aux-parallax-section elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-c6c8236\" data-id=\"c6c8236\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-72dbb40 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"72dbb40\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"769\" height=\"689\" src=\"https:\/\/healthdept.ep.gov.lk\/rdhs-kl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/1791444311-3.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-423\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bd177ca elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"bd177ca\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ep_scroll_box_enable&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Regional Director of Health Services is responsible for Curative and Preventive healthcare service delivery of the region.<br \/>Following are the responsibilities fall under the purview of RDHS Kalmunai:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2527ab6 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2527ab6\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_ha_eqh_enable&quot;:false}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"aux-parallax-section elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b2cb259\" data-id=\"b2cb259\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-69c3e5d elementor-tabs-alignment-center elementor-tabs-view-horizontal elementor-widget elementor-widget-tabs\" data-id=\"69c3e5d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"tabs.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tabs\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tabs-wrapper\" role=\"tablist\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-1101\" class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-desktop-title\" aria-selected=\"true\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-1101\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Curative Services <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-1102\" class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-desktop-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"2\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-1102\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Preventive Services<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-1103\" class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-desktop-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"3\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-1103\" aria-expanded=\"false\"> Other Services    <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tabs-content-wrapper\" role=\"tablist\" aria-orientation=\"vertical\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-mobile-title\" aria-selected=\"true\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-1101\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Curative Services <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-1101\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-1101\" tabindex=\"0\" hidden=\"false\"><p><strong><span style=\"color: #24678d; font-size: x-large;\">Curative Care Services:<\/span><\/strong><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Responsibilities of the Curative Care sector of the Office of the Regional Director of Health Services Kalmunai:<\/span><\/span><\/p><p>\u200b\u200bPlanning of curative healthcare services (long term and short term) under the direction and guidance of the ministry of health and Eastern provincial directorate of health services.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><ul><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Implementing\u00a0curative healthcare service plans in consultation with the ministry of health and Eastern PDHS.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Monitoring of curative healthcare activities guided by the ministry of health and PDHS according to the guidelines stipulated by\u00a0the ministry of health.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Maintaining medical statistics and database of all curative healthcare sector data and sending them to relevant authorities at Eastern PDHS in Trincomalee\u00a0and the Ministry of Health in Colombo.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Regulating private healthcare sector of the region through relevant mechanism according to the guidelines of the Ministry of Health; maintaining a database on private hospitals and nursing homes for the purpose.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Provision of technical support for special events and activities related to the curative sector (e.g.: development of curative health services in estates, establishing Emergency Treatment Units, upgrading of hospitals and services).<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Conducting medical surveys and operational research as guided by the Eastern PDHS and the ministry of health.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Coordinating with technical units of the MOH and other departments to ensure implementation of curative care projects.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Provision of technical support to facilitate planning , monitoring and evaluation of curative health programmes in the region in consultation with Eastern PDHS and the ministry of health.<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><strong><span style=\"color: #d5d5d5; font-size: xx-large;\">Services provided by RDHS Kalmunai &#8211; Details..\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #24678d; font-size: xx-large;\">Curative Care Services:<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Responsibilities of the Curative Care sector of the Office of the Regional Director of Health Services Kalmunai:<\/span><\/p><ul><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Planning of curative healthcare services (long term and short term) under the direction and guidance of the ministry of health and Eastern provincial directorate of health services.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\">Implementing\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\">curative healthcare service plans in consultation with the ministry of health and Eastern PDHS.<\/span><\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Monitoring of curative healthcare activities guided by the ministry of health and PDHS according to the guidelines stipulated by\u00a0the ministry of health.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Maintaining medical statistics and database of all curative healthcare sector data and sending them to relevant authorities at Eastern PDHS in Trincomalee\u00a0and the Ministry of Health in Colombo.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Regulating private healthcare sector of the region through relevant mechanism according to the guidelines of the Ministry of Health; maintaining a database on private hospitals and nursing homes for the purpose.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Provision of technical support for special events and activities related to the curative sector (e.g.: development of curative health services in estates, establishing Emergency Treatment Units, upgrading of hospitals and services).<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Conducting medical surveys and operational research as guided by the Eastern PDHS and the ministry of health.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Coordinating with technical units of the MOH and other departments to ensure implementation of curative care projects.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Provision of technical support to facilitate planning , monitoring and evaluation of curative health programmes in the region in consultation with Eastern PDHS and the ministry of health.<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\">Curative care to the people of Kalmunai region is given by:<\/span><\/span><\/p><ol><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Government Health Sector<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Private Health Sector<\/span><\/li><\/ol><p><span style=\"color: #24678d; font-size: x-large;\">Government Health Sector:<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Network of the Government sector curative care institutions ranges from tertiary care institutions like teaching hospitals that have specialised consultative services to small primary medical care units and maternity homes, that provide only out patient services. Categorisation of hospitals is made based on the size and available facilities. There are three levels of curative care institutions.<\/span><\/p><ol><li><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\">Primary Care Institutions<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\"> \u00a0 Divisional Hospitals (DH)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\"><em>* (This category includes district hospitals, peripheral hospitals and rural hospitals which were separately considered in the former classification)<\/em><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Primary Medical Care Units (PMCU)<br \/>*<em> (Previously Central Dispensaries and Maternity Wards)<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\">Secondary Care Institutions<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 District General Hospitals (DGH)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 District Base Hospitals (DBH)<\/span><\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\">Tertiary Care Institutions<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Teaching Hospitals (TH)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Provincial Hospitals (PH)<\/span><\/span><\/li><\/ol><p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\">Out of all these categories of curative care institutions, Kalmunai RDHS has the following types:<\/span><\/span><\/p><ul><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">22 primary care institutions (13 DH and 9 PMCU)<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">7\u00a0secondary care institutions (4 type A base hospitals and 3 type B base hospitals; 3 of these BHs belong to the line ministry)<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">No tertiary care institutions available in the region where the Teaching Hospital (TH) Batticaloa is situated\u00a0around 40 km away.<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\">Of these, four secondary healthcare institutions, and all primary care institutions come under the Eastern Provincial\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\">Department of\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Health Services .<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #24678d; font-size: x-large;\">Primary care services:<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Primary care services to the people in Kalmunai RDHS are delivered through Divisional Hospitals (DH) and Primary Medical Care Units (PMCU). In\u00a0Kalmunai RDHS\u00a0the total number of Primary care institutes stands at 22 as of 2021.<\/span><\/p><p>The Divisional hospitals provide both outpatient and inpatient care including the provision of basic health facilities for the treatment of minor ailments. Patients are referred to secondary healthcare institutions in the region and to tertiary care institutions in adjacent regions of Amapara or Batticaloa for further specialised care or procedures. Provision of perinatal care and follow up of patients referred from secondary or tertiary care institutions are also carried out at these hospitals. On the other hand, Primary Medical Care Units concentrate mainly on limited outpatient services alone.<\/p><p><span style=\"color: #24678d; font-size: x-large;\">Secondary Care Services:<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Secondary care institutions consist of the four common specialties General Medicine, Surgery, Paediatrics, and Obstetrics &amp; Gynaecology. Some other specialties such as Orthopaedics, Cardiology, Neurology, Ophathalmology, ENT and Dermatology are provided by a few selected type A base hospitals in the region. Essential limited backup services are available at these institutions including laboratory services and basic radiological services. The laboratory services consist of basic biochemical, haematological, microorganism culture\/staining studies and histopathological investigations.<\/span><\/p><p>Seven secondary care institutions provide specialized services to the people in the region. Of these, three type A base hospitals (BH Akkaraipattu, Ashraff Memorial Hospital (AMH) and BH Kalmunai) are managed by the line ministry while the rest come under the administration of the Eastern Province Health Department. Those are BH Nintavur (type B), BH Pottuvil<span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">\u00a0(type B), BH Sammanthurai\u00a0(type A), and BH Thirukkovil\u00a0(type B).<\/span><\/p><p>In addition to curative care services, secondary healthcare institutes provide special preventive care activities such as anti-rabies and anti-tetanus vaccination facilities. Following recent Covid-19 pandemic, all these secondary hospitals act as referral centres to the Intermediate Care Centres (ICC) located in the region, in addition to providing above services.\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"color: #24678d; font-size: x-large;\">Intermediate Care Centers (ICC):<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Ministry of health has established four intermediate care institutions in Kalmunai RDHS region as an immediate response to the quick spread of Covid-19 in the region. These are Addalaichenai (Ayurvedic Base Hospital) ICC facility with a capacity of 40 beds to males, Akkaraippattu (DH) ICC with a capacity of 80 beds for both males and females, Maruthamunai (DH) ICC with 113 bed strength to accommodate 12 children also, and Palamunai (DH) ICC with a bed strength of 80 exclusively for males.<\/span><\/p><p>RDHS Kalmunai has been operating these ICCs successfully with great dedication and sacrifices with considerable\u00a0men and material constraints. Statistics show that these IICs have so far catered services to around a thousand people by the beginning of August 2021.<\/p><p><span style=\"color: #24678d; font-size: x-large;\">Tertiary care services:<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">There are no tertiary care institutions in Kalmunai RDHS region.<\/span><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #24678d; font-size: x-large;\">Private Health Sector:<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">A parallel health care is provided by several private hospitals based in the urban areas of the Kalmunai region. There are a few of these private sector facilities that provide specialised services including medical, paediatric, surgical, orthopaedic, maternity and gynaecological, radiological sevices etc. among other services.\u00a0The private health sector is administered by the Private Health Regulatory Council in coordination with RDHS Kalmunai.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #24678d; font-size: x-large;\">P<\/span><span style=\"color: #24678d; font-size: x-large;\">reventive Health Services:<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Responsibilities of the preventive Health Unit:<\/span><\/p><ul><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Planning of Preventive Health Services (long term and short term) under the guidance and in consultation with the ministry of health and the Eastern PDHS.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Implementing and monitoring of preventive Health activities as stipulated by the ministry in consultation with Eastern PDHS.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Providing technical support for special events and activities (develop preventive health services in estates, Occupational health, prevention of water borne diseases.) as guided by the ministry and Eastern PDHS.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Carrying out surveys and essential research as guided by the ministry and the Eastern PDHS.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Coordinating\u00a0with technical units of the MOH and other departments to ensure smooth and effective ground level implementation of preventive healthcare projects under the guidance from the ministry and Eastern PDHS.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Providing technical assistance\u00a0to facilitate planning, monitoring and evaluation of preventive healthcare programmes at regional level under the guidance of the ministry and Eastern PDHS.<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Preventive Health Services are provided\u00a0 regional focal points at RDHS Kalmunai through the 13 medical Officers of Health (MOH) units in Kalmunai RDHS region. Geographical demarcation of these MOH divisions in most areas roughly follow the Divisional Secretary divisional boundaries.\u00a0Each medical officer of Health unit provides Reproductive health services through the Public Health Midwives (PHM), Supervising Public Health Midwives (SPHM) and Public Health Nursing Sisters (PHNS). Environment Health services are provided through the Public Health Inspectors (PHI) and Supervising Public Health Inspectors (SPHI).<\/span><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\"><br \/><\/span><\/strong><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #24678d; font-size: x-large;\">Maternal and Child Health<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">These services include antenatal care both clinic and domiciliary, post natal care, maternal nutrition, immunization, growth monitoring and promotion, early childhood care and development, Infant and young child nutrition.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #24678d; font-size: x-large;\">School Health<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">School heal services also provided through MOH.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Dental health services at schools are provided through school dental therapists.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #24678d; font-size: x-large;\">Well-women services<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Available free of cost to all women 35 years and above where a full medical inspection is done, including blood pressure, BMI, screening for female malignancies including PAP smear.<\/span><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #24678d; font-size: x-large;\">Family Planning<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Family planning services are provided free of cost and couples are counseled and provided the method of their choice. The modern family planning methods available are condoms, oral contraceptives, Depo injections, intra uterine devices, Norplant and permanent male and female sterilization.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #24678d; font-size: x-large;\">In addition to the above services, RDHS region Kalmunai provides following services as well:<\/span><\/p><ul><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Environment\u00a0Health Occupational Health.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Prevention and control of communicable diseases.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Prevention and control of NCD.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Active ageing.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Mental Health well being.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Health Promotion.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\">Oral health care and d<\/span><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\">ental health services are provided through the Dental Surgeons and dental therapists.<\/span><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-mobile-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"2\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-1102\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Preventive Services<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-1102\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"2\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-1102\" tabindex=\"0\" hidden=\"hidden\"><p><strong><span style=\"color: #24678d; font-size: x-large;\">Preventive Health Services:<\/span><\/strong><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Responsibilities of the preventive Health Unit:<\/span><\/p><ul><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Planning of Preventive Health Services (long term and short term) under the guidance and in consultation with the ministry of health and the Eastern PDHS.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Implementing and monitoring of preventive Health activities as stipulated by the ministry in consultation with Eastern PDHS.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Providing technical support for special events and activities (develop preventive health services in estates, Occupational health, prevention of water borne diseases.) as guided by the ministry and Eastern PDHS.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Carrying out surveys and essential research as guided by the ministry and the Eastern PDHS.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Coordinating\u00a0with technical units of the MOH and other departments to ensure smooth and effective ground level implementation of preventive healthcare projects under the guidance from the ministry and Eastern PDHS.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Providing technical assistance\u00a0to facilitate planning, monitoring and evaluation of preventive healthcare programmes at regional level under the guidance of the ministry and Eastern PDHS.<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\"><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Preventive Health Services are provided\u00a0 regional focal points at RDHS Kalmunai through the 13 medical Officers of Health (MOH) units in Kalmunai RDHS region. Geographical demarcation of these MOH divisions in most areas roughly follow the Divisional Secretary divisional boundaries.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p><p>\u200bEach medical officer of Health unit provides Reproductive health services through the Public Health Midwives (PHM), Supervising Public Health Midwives (SPHM) and Public Health Nursing Sisters (PHNS).<\/p><p>\u200bEnvironment Health services are provided through the Public Health Inspectors (PHI) and Supervising Public Health Inspectors (SPHI<\/p><p><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #d5d5d5; font-size: xx-large;\">Services provided by RDHS Kalmunai &#8211; Details..<br \/><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #24678d; font-size: xx-large;\">Curative Care Services:<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Responsibilities of the Curative Care sector of the Office of the Regional Director of Health Services Kalmunai:<\/span><\/p><ul><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Planning of curative healthcare services (long term and short term) under the direction and guidance of the ministry of health and Eastern provincial directorate of health services.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\">Implementing\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\">curative healthcare service plans in consultation with the ministry of health and Eastern PDHS.<\/span><\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Monitoring of curative healthcare activities guided by the ministry of health and PDHS according to the guidelines stipulated by\u00a0the ministry of health.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Maintaining medical statistics and database of all curative healthcare sector data and sending them to relevant authorities at Eastern PDHS in Trincomalee\u00a0and the Ministry of Health in Colombo.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Regulating private healthcare sector of the region through relevant mechanism according to the guidelines of the Ministry of Health; maintaining a database on private hospitals and nursing homes for the purpose.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Provision of technical support for special events and activities related to the curative sector (e.g.: development of curative health services in estates, establishing Emergency Treatment Units, upgrading of hospitals and services).<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Conducting medical surveys and operational research as guided by the Eastern PDHS and the ministry of health.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Coordinating with technical units of the MOH and other departments to ensure implementation of curative care projects.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Provision of technical support to facilitate planning , monitoring and evaluation of curative health programmes in the region in consultation with Eastern PDHS and the ministry of health.<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\">Curative care to the people of Kalmunai region is given by:<\/span><\/span><\/p><ol><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Government Health Sector<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Private Health Sector<\/span><\/li><\/ol><p><span style=\"color: #24678d; font-size: x-large;\">Government Health Sector:<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Network of the Government sector curative care institutions ranges from tertiary care institutions like teaching hospitals that have specialised consultative services to small primary medical care units and maternity homes, that provide only out patient services. Categorisation of hospitals is made based on the size and available facilities. There are three levels of curative care institutions.<\/span><\/p><ol><li><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\">Primary Care Institutions<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\"> \u00a0 Divisional Hospitals (DH)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\"><em>* (This category includes district hospitals, peripheral hospitals and rural hospitals which were separately considered in the former classification)<\/em><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Primary Medical Care Units (PMCU)<br \/>*<em> (Previously Central Dispensaries and Maternity Wards)<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\">Secondary Care Institutions<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 District General Hospitals (DGH)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 District Base Hospitals (DBH)<\/span><\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\">Tertiary Care Institutions<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Teaching Hospitals (TH)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Provincial Hospitals (PH)<\/span><\/span><\/li><\/ol><p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\">Out of all these categories of curative care institutions, Kalmunai RDHS has the following types:<\/span><\/span><\/p><ul><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">22 primary care institutions (13 DH and 9 PMCU)<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">7\u00a0secondary care institutions (4 type A base hospitals and 3 type B base hospitals; 3 of these BHs belong to the line ministry)<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">No tertiary care institutions available in the region where the Teaching Hospital (TH) Batticaloa is situated\u00a0around 40 km away.<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\">Of these, four secondary healthcare institutions, and all primary care institutions come under the Eastern Provincial\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\">Department of\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Health Services .<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #24678d; font-size: x-large;\">Primary care services:<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Primary care services to the people in Kalmunai RDHS are delivered through Divisional Hospitals (DH) and Primary Medical Care Units (PMCU). In\u00a0Kalmunai RDHS\u00a0the total number of Primary care institutes stands at 22 as of 2021.<\/span><\/p><p>The Divisional hospitals provide both outpatient and inpatient care including the provision of basic health facilities for the treatment of minor ailments. Patients are referred to secondary healthcare institutions in the region and to tertiary care institutions in adjacent regions of Amapara or Batticaloa for further specialised care or procedures. Provision of perinatal care and follow up of patients referred from secondary or tertiary care institutions are also carried out at these hospitals. On the other hand, Primary Medical Care Units concentrate mainly on limited outpatient services alone.<\/p><p><span style=\"color: #24678d; font-size: x-large;\">Secondary Care Services:<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Secondary care institutions consist of the four common specialties General Medicine, Surgery, Paediatrics, and Obstetrics &amp; Gynaecology. Some other specialties such as Orthopaedics, Cardiology, Neurology, Ophathalmology, ENT and Dermatology are provided by a few selected type A base hospitals in the region. Essential limited backup services are available at these institutions including laboratory services and basic radiological services. The laboratory services consist of basic biochemical, haematological, microorganism culture\/staining studies and histopathological investigations.<\/span><\/p><p>Seven secondary care institutions provide specialized services to the people in the region. Of these, three type A base hospitals (BH Akkaraipattu, Ashraff Memorial Hospital (AMH) and BH Kalmunai) are managed by the line ministry while the rest come under the administration of the Eastern Province Health Department. Those are BH Nintavur (type B), BH Pottuvil<span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">\u00a0(type B), BH Sammanthurai\u00a0(type A), and BH Thirukkovil\u00a0(type B).<\/span><\/p><p>In addition to curative care services, secondary healthcare institutes provide special preventive care activities such as anti-rabies and anti-tetanus vaccination facilities. Following recent Covid-19 pandemic, all these secondary hospitals act as referral centres to the Intermediate Care Centres (ICC) located in the region, in addition to providing above services.\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"color: #24678d; font-size: x-large;\">Intermediate Care Centers (ICC)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Ministry of health has established four intermediate care institutions in Kalmunai RDHS region as an immediate response to the quick spread of Covid-19 in the region. These are Addalaichenai (Ayurvedic Base Hospital) ICC facility with a capacity of 40 beds to males, Akkaraippattu (DH) ICC with a capacity of 80 beds for both males and females, Maruthamunai (DH) ICC with 113 bed strength to accommodate 12 children also, and Palamunai (DH) ICC with a bed strength of 80 exclusively for males.<\/span><\/p><p>RDHS Kalmunai has been operating these ICCs successfully with great dedication and sacrifices with considerable\u00a0men and material constraints. Statistics show that these IICs have so far catered services to around a thousand people by the beginning of August 2021.<\/p><p><span style=\"color: #24678d; font-size: x-large;\">Tertiary care services<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">There are no tertiary care institutions in Kalmunai RDHS region.<\/span><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #24678d; font-size: x-large;\">Private Health Sector:<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">A parallel health care is provided by several private hospitals based in the urban areas of the Kalmunai region. There are a few of these private sector facilities that provide specialised services including medical, paediatric, surgical, orthopaedic, maternity and gynaecological, radiological sevices etc. among other services.\u00a0The private health sector is administered by the Private Health Regulatory Council in coordination with RDHS Kalmunai.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #24678d; font-size: x-large;\">Preventive Health Services:<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Responsibilities of the preventive Health Unit:<\/span><\/p><ul><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Planning of Preventive Health Services (long term and short term) under the guidance and in consultation with the ministry of health and the Eastern PDHS.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Implementing and monitoring of preventive Health activities as stipulated by the ministry in consultation with Eastern PDHS.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Providing technical support for special events and activities (develop preventive health services in estates, Occupational health, prevention of water borne diseases.) as guided by the ministry and Eastern PDHS.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Carrying out surveys and essential research as guided by the ministry and the Eastern PDHS.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Coordinating\u00a0with technical units of the MOH and other departments to ensure smooth and effective ground level implementation of preventive healthcare projects under the guidance from the ministry and Eastern PDHS.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Providing technical assistance\u00a0to facilitate planning, monitoring and evaluation of preventive healthcare programmes at regional level under the guidance of the ministry and Eastern PDHS.<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Preventive Health Services are provided\u00a0 regional focal points at RDHS Kalmunai through the 13 medical Officers of Health (MOH) units in Kalmunai RDHS region. Geographical demarcation of these MOH divisions in most areas roughly follow the Divisional Secretary divisional boundaries.\u00a0Each medical officer of Health unit provides Reproductive health services through the Public Health Midwives (PHM), Supervising Public Health Midwives (SPHM) and Public Health Nursing Sisters (PHNS). Environment Health services are provided through the Public Health Inspectors (PHI) and Supervising Public Health Inspectors (SPHI).<\/span><br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #24678d; font-size: x-large;\">Maternal and Child Health<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">These services include antenatal care both clinic and domiciliary, post natal care, maternal nutrition, immunization, growth monitoring and promotion, early childhood care and development, Infant and young child nutrition.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #24678d; font-size: x-large;\">School Health<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">School heal services also provided through MOH.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Dental health services at schools are provided through school dental therapists.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #24678d; font-size: x-large;\">Well-women services<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Available free of cost to all women 35 years and above where a full medical inspection is done, including blood pressure, BMI, screening for female malignancies including PAP smear.<\/span><br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #24678d; font-size: x-large;\">Family Planning<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Family planning services are provided free of cost and couples are counseled and provided the method of their choice. The modern family planning methods available are condoms, oral contraceptives, Depo injections, intra uterine devices, Norplant and permanent male and female sterilization.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #24678d; font-size: x-large;\">In addition to the above services, RDHS region Kalmunai provides following services as well:<\/span><\/p><ul><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Environment\u00a0Health Occupational Health.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Prevention and control of communicable diseases.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Prevention and control of NCD.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Active ageing.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Mental Health well being.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Health Promotion.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\">Oral health care and d<\/span><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\">ental health services are provided through the Dental Surgeons and dental therapists.<\/span><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-mobile-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"3\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-1103\" aria-expanded=\"false\"> Other Services    <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-1103\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"3\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-1103\" tabindex=\"0\" hidden=\"hidden\"><div class=\"paragraph\"><p><span style=\"color: #24678d; font-size: x-large;\">Maternal and Child Health:<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">These services include antenatal care both clinic and domiciliary, post natal care, maternal nutrition, immunization, growth monitoring and promotion, early childhood care and development, Infant and young child nutrition.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #24678d; font-size: x-large;\">School Health:<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">School heal services also provided through MOH.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Dental health services at schools are provided through school dental therapists.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #24678d; font-size: x-large;\">Well-women services:<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Available free of cost to all women 35 years and above where a full medical inspection is done, including blood pressure, BMI, screening for female malignancies including PAP smear.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #24678d; font-size: x-large;\">Family Planning:<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Family planning services are provided free of cost and couples are counseled and provided the method of their choice. The modern family planning methods available are condoms, oral contraceptives, Depo injections, intra uterine devices, Norplant and permanent male and female sterilization.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #24678d; font-size: x-large;\">In addition to the above services, RDHS region Kalmunai provides following services as well:<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">\u200b<\/span><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Environment\u00a0Health Occupational Health.<br \/>Prevention and control of communicable diseases.<br \/>Prevention and control of NCD.<br \/>Active ageing.<br \/>Mental Health well being.<br \/>Health Promotion.<br \/>\u200bOral health care and dental health services are provided through the Dental Surgeons and dental therapists.<\/span><\/p><\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div><strong><span style=\"color: #d5d5d5; font-size: xx-large;\">Services provided by RDHS Kalmunai &#8211; Details..<\/span><\/strong><\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div><p><span style=\"color: #24678d; font-size: xx-large;\">Curative Care Services:<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Responsibilities of the Curative Care sector of the Office of the Regional Director of Health Services Kalmunai:<\/span><\/p><ul><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Planning of curative healthcare services (long term and short term) under the direction and guidance of the ministry of health and Eastern provincial directorate of health services.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\">Implementing\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\">curative healthcare service plans in consultation with the ministry of health and Eastern PDHS.<\/span><\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Monitoring of curative healthcare activities guided by the ministry of health and PDHS according to the guidelines stipulated by\u00a0the ministry of health.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Maintaining medical statistics and database of all curative healthcare sector data and sending them to relevant authorities at Eastern PDHS in Trincomalee\u00a0and the Ministry of Health in Colombo.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Regulating private healthcare sector of the region through relevant mechanism according to the guidelines of the Ministry of Health; maintaining a database on private hospitals and nursing homes for the purpose.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Provision of technical support for special events and activities related to the curative sector (e.g.: development of curative health services in estates, establishing Emergency Treatment Units, upgrading of hospitals and services).<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Conducting medical surveys and operational research as guided by the Eastern PDHS and the ministry of health.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Coordinating with technical units of the MOH and other departments to ensure implementation of curative care projects.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Provision of technical support to facilitate planning , monitoring and evaluation of curative health programmes in the region in consultation with Eastern PDHS and the ministry of health.<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\">Curative care to the people of Kalmunai region is given by:<\/span><\/span><\/p><ol><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Government Health Sector<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Private Health Sector<\/span><\/li><\/ol><p><span style=\"color: #24678d; font-size: x-large;\">Government Health Sector:<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Network of the Government sector curative care institutions ranges from tertiary care institutions like teaching hospitals that have specialised consultative services to small primary medical care units and maternity homes, that provide only out patient services. Categorisation of hospitals is made based on the size and available facilities. There are three levels of curative care institutions.<\/span><\/p><ol><li><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\">Primary Care Institutions<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\"> \u00a0 Divisional Hospitals (DH)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\"><em>* (This category includes district hospitals, peripheral hospitals and rural hospitals which were separately considered in the former classification)<\/em><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Primary Medical Care Units (PMCU)<br \/>*<em> (Previously Central Dispensaries and Maternity Wards)<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\">Secondary Care Institutions<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 District General Hospitals (DGH)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 District Base Hospitals (DBH)<\/span><\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\">Tertiary Care Institutions<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Teaching Hospitals (TH)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Provincial Hospitals (PH)<\/span><\/span><\/li><\/ol><p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\">Out of all these categories of curative care institutions, Kalmunai RDHS has the following types:<\/span><\/span><\/p><ul><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">22 primary care institutions (13 DH and 9 PMCU)<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">7\u00a0secondary care institutions (4 type A base hospitals and 3 type B base hospitals; 3 of these BHs belong to the line ministry)<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">No tertiary care institutions available in the region where the Teaching Hospital (TH) Batticaloa is situated\u00a0around 40 km away.<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\">Of these, four secondary healthcare institutions, and all primary care institutions come under the Eastern Provincial\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\">Department of\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Health Services .<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #24678d; font-size: x-large;\">Primary care services:<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Primary care services to the people in Kalmunai RDHS are delivered through Divisional Hospitals (DH) and Primary Medical Care Units (PMCU). In\u00a0Kalmunai RDHS\u00a0the total number of Primary care institutes stands at 22 as of 2021.<\/span><\/p><p>The Divisional hospitals provide both outpatient and inpatient care including the provision of basic health facilities for the treatment of minor ailments. Patients are referred to secondary healthcare institutions in the region and to tertiary care institutions in adjacent regions of Amapara or Batticaloa for further specialised care or procedures. Provision of perinatal care and follow up of patients referred from secondary or tertiary care institutions are also carried out at these hospitals. On the other hand, Primary Medical Care Units concentrate mainly on limited outpatient services alone.<\/p><p><span style=\"color: #24678d; font-size: x-large;\">Secondary Care Services:<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Secondary care institutions consist of the four common specialties General Medicine, Surgery, Paediatrics, and Obstetrics &amp; Gynaecology. Some other specialties such as Orthopaedics, Cardiology, Neurology, Ophathalmology, ENT and Dermatology are provided by a few selected type A base hospitals in the region. Essential limited backup services are available at these institutions including laboratory services and basic radiological services. The laboratory services consist of basic biochemical, haematological, microorganism culture\/staining studies and histopathological investigations.<\/span><\/p><p>Seven secondary care institutions provide specialized services to the people in the region. Of these, three type A base hospitals (BH Akkaraipattu, Ashraff Memorial Hospital (AMH) and BH Kalmunai) are managed by the line ministry while the rest come under the administration of the Eastern Province Health Department. Those are BH Nintavur (type B), BH Pottuvil<span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">\u00a0(type B), BH Sammanthurai\u00a0(type A), and BH Thirukkovil\u00a0(type B).<\/span><\/p><p>In addition to curative care services, secondary healthcare institutes provide special preventive care activities such as anti-rabies and anti-tetanus vaccination facilities. Following recent Covid-19 pandemic, all these secondary hospitals act as referral centres to the Intermediate Care Centres (ICC) located in the region, in addition to providing above services.\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"color: #24678d; font-size: x-large;\">Intermediate Care Centers (ICC)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Ministry of health has established four intermediate care institutions in Kalmunai RDHS region as an immediate response to the quick spread of Covid-19 in the region. These are Addalaichenai (Ayurvedic Base Hospital) ICC facility with a capacity of 40 beds to males, Akkaraippattu (DH) ICC with a capacity of 80 beds for both males and females, Maruthamunai (DH) ICC with 113 bed strength to accommodate 12 children also, and Palamunai (DH) ICC with a bed strength of 80 exclusively for males.<\/span><\/p><p>RDHS Kalmunai has been operating these ICCs successfully with great dedication and sacrifices with considerable\u00a0men and material constraints. Statistics show that these IICs have so far catered services to around a thousand people by the beginning of August 2021.<\/p><p><span style=\"color: #24678d; font-size: x-large;\">Tertiary care services<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">There are no tertiary care institutions in Kalmunai RDHS region.<\/span><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #24678d; font-size: x-large;\">Private Health Sector:<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">A parallel health care is provided by several private hospitals based in the urban areas of the Kalmunai region. There are a few of these private sector facilities that provide specialised services including medical, paediatric, surgical, orthopaedic, maternity and gynaecological, radiological sevices etc. among other services.\u00a0The private health sector is administered by the Private Health Regulatory Council in coordination with RDHS Kalmunai.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #24678d; font-size: x-large;\">Preventive Health Services:<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Responsibilities of the preventive Health Unit:<\/span><\/p><ul><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Planning of Preventive Health Services (long term and short term) under the guidance and in consultation with the ministry of health and the Eastern PDHS.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Implementing and monitoring of preventive Health activities as stipulated by the ministry in consultation with Eastern PDHS.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Providing technical support for special events and activities (develop preventive health services in estates, Occupational health, prevention of water borne diseases.) as guided by the ministry and Eastern PDHS.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Carrying out surveys and essential research as guided by the ministry and the Eastern PDHS.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Coordinating\u00a0with technical units of the MOH and other departments to ensure smooth and effective ground level implementation of preventive healthcare projects under the guidance from the ministry and Eastern PDHS.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Providing technical assistance\u00a0to facilitate planning, monitoring and evaluation of preventive healthcare programmes at regional level under the guidance of the ministry and Eastern PDHS.<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Preventive Health Services are provided\u00a0 regional focal points at RDHS Kalmunai through the 13 medical Officers of Health (MOH) units in Kalmunai RDHS region. Geographical demarcation of these MOH divisions in most areas roughly follow the Divisional Secretary divisional boundaries.\u00a0Each medical officer of Health unit provides Reproductive health services through the Public Health Midwives (PHM), Supervising Public Health Midwives (SPHM) and Public Health Nursing Sisters (PHNS). Environment Health services are provided through the Public Health Inspectors (PHI) and Supervising Public Health Inspectors (SPHI).<\/span><br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #24678d; font-size: x-large;\">Maternal and Child Health<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">These services include antenatal care both clinic and domiciliary, post natal care, maternal nutrition, immunization, growth monitoring and promotion, early childhood care and development, Infant and young child nutrition.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #24678d; font-size: x-large;\">School Health<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">School heal services also provided through MOH.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Dental health services at schools are provided through school dental therapists.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #24678d; font-size: x-large;\">Well-women services<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Available free of cost to all women 35 years and above where a full medical inspection is done, including blood pressure, BMI, screening for female malignancies including PAP smear.<\/span><br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #24678d; font-size: x-large;\">Family Planning<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Family planning services are provided free of cost and couples are counseled and provided the method of their choice. The modern family planning methods available are condoms, oral contraceptives, Depo injections, intra uterine devices, Norplant and permanent male and female sterilization.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #24678d; font-size: x-large;\">In addition to the above services, RDHS region Kalmunai provides following services as well:<\/span><\/p><ul><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Environment\u00a0Health Occupational Health.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Prevention and control of communicable diseases.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Prevention and control of NCD.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Active ageing.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Mental Health well being.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\">Health Promotion.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\">Oral health care and d<\/span><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\">ental health services are provided through the Dental Surgeons and dental therapists.<\/span><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regional Director of Health Services is responsible for Curative and Preventive healthcare service delivery of the region.Following are the responsibilities fall under the purview of RDHS Kalmunai: Curative Services Preventive Services Other Services Curative Services Curative Care Services: Responsibilities of the Curative Care sector of the Office of the Regional Director of Health Services Kalmunai: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-419","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthdept.ep.gov.lk\/rdhs-kl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthdept.ep.gov.lk\/rdhs-kl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthdept.ep.gov.lk\/rdhs-kl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthdept.ep.gov.lk\/rdhs-kl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthdept.ep.gov.lk\/rdhs-kl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/healthdept.ep.gov.lk\/rdhs-kl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2679,"href":"https:\/\/healthdept.ep.gov.lk\/rdhs-kl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/419\/revisions\/2679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthdept.ep.gov.lk\/rdhs-kl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}