Lanka Hospitals introduces MDT Meeting system for blood cancer patients

Multi award Lanka Hospitals PLC has introduced Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) Meeting system for blood cancer patients, a standard practice in cancer centers/ hospitals in the United Kingdom.

Consultant Clinical Heamatologist/ Heamato-Oncologist, Dr. Saman Hewamana (MD,MRCP, FRCP, MRC Path, FRCPath, PhD, CCT) chairs these MDT meetings on each blood cancer patient who seeks treatment at Lanka Hospitals or those who are referred for MDT opinion from National Cancer Institute Maharagama (NCIM).

Dr. Hewamana is an imminent medical professional with a raft of research publications on Heamato-Oncology (blood cancer). He has extensive experience having worked at the Royal Marsden Hospital, the biggest cancer Centre in Europe and The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR), London, UK. He was unanimously selected as Chairman of the MDT for hematological malignancies at Lanka Hospitals. His team is complimented by renowned Oncologists in the private sector and also those from National Cancer Institute Maharagama (NCIM).

"A multidisciplinary team is a group of health care workers who are members of different disciplines (professions e.g. Oncologists, Clinical Haematologists, Pathologists, Surgeons, Cardiologists, nursing staff, Pharmacists, Psychiatrists, Social Workers, junior doctors etc.), each providing specific services to each patient. The team members independently treat various medical conditions a patient may have, focusing on the issues in which they specialize. For the first time, Lanka Hospitals has now put together this globally tried and tested system to bring in holistic cancer patient care in an international level". Stated Dr. Hewamana.