Lanka Hospitals promotes importance of healthy living on International Women’s Day

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Lanka Hospitals, the multi-award winning healthcare provider in the forefront of the nation’s medical industry, recently celebrated International Women’s Day at its auditorium. Organised by Lanka Hospitals’ Women’s Wellness Centre, the program featured guest lectures by some of the country’s leading doctors, raising awareness on the importance of wellbeing and health consciousness for women. The program was held to commemorate International Women’s Day, where many dignitaries including prominent women entrepreneurs, professionals and academics also graced the occasion.

The guest lectures were delivered by Consultant Oncological Surgeon Dr. Naomal Perera, Consultant VOG Dr. Samanthi Premarathna, and Consultant Cosmetic Surgeon Dr. Sathish Wijemanne. Encompassing various aspects on wellbeing and health consciousness, the speakers stressed on the consequences of unhealthy lifestyle and food consumption and elaborated on the benefits of sustaining wellness among women.

The Women’s Wellness Centre (WWC) was established by Lanka Hospitals with the sole objective of facilitating a dedicated centre for providing holistic healthcare solutions to young girls and women. This fully-fledged centre, on par with international standards, offers diagnostics, consultations, treatments, post-procedural checkups and a number of services all under one roof.

Being a one-stop healthcare centre delivering optimum privacy for all female patients (from puberty and above), the Women’s Wellness Centre is equipped with ultra-modern equipment such as Fujifilm Amulet Innovality – the digital Mammography system which greatly reduces radiation and discomfort to patients. Moreover, its superior sensitivity can detect the slightest traces of breast cancer at its earliest stage, in addition to performing breast biopsy and localisation procedures with high precision. Lanka Hospitals also facilitates the country’s most renowned and finest gynaecologists to serve at its Women’s Wellness Centre backed by a specially trained nursing staff to bring utmost care to the patients.