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.
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