Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi opened the Computerized Tomography Scanning Unit built at a cost of Rs. 60 million at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID), Angoda yesterday, a Health Ministry spokesman said.
According to the spokesman, the unit includes a CT Scanner and the building had been constructed by the Sri Lanka Navy. The unit will be able to serve COVID-19 patients more efficiently with the new facility.
After opening the new unit Minister Wanniarachchi pointed out the importance of having a second hospital in Sri Lanka to treat infectious diseases. She stated that it is the leadership given by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa which helped to control COVID-19 in Sri Lanka successfully.
Required changes had been done in 30 more hospitals in order to treat COVID-19 patients. It is highly admirable how the NIID faced the COVID-19 outbreak in Sri Lanka while the health staff in many other countries suffered fear and hardships, she added.
A computerized tomography (CT) scan combines a series of X-ray images taken from different angles around a person’s body and uses computer processing to create cross-sectional images (slices) of the bones, blood vessels and soft tissues inside the body. A CT scan images provide more-detailed information than plain X-rays do. A CT scan can be used to visualize nearly all parts of the body and is used to diagnose disease or injury as well as to plan medical, surgical or radiation treatment.
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